Maoris Not “Rebels.”
The friendship that the white race felt towards the Maori should be shown by the removal of the word “rebel” from the memorial commemorating the fight at Te-Ngutu-o-te-Manu on September 7, 1868, and the death of Major von Tempsky and other soldiers, said Mr John Houston, Maori historian, of Hawera, in an address to the children of the Okaiawa School, Taranaki.
Pouwhareumu Toi, one of the elders of the Nga-Ruahine tribe, who was present as a child at the 1868 engagement, was with Mr Houston. The wars with the Maoris were a tragedy and the Royal Commission 6f 1927, under Sir William Sim, found that they were unjust and unholy and that the pakeha forced them on the Maori,” said Mr Houston. “If the commission was right, as I am convinced it was, then the word ‘rebel’ in connection with the Maoris should not be there. I hope that one day we may be big enough to erase it.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 April 1938, Page 3
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