UNREST AMONG MAORIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19366, 24 July 1925, Page 5

UNREST AMONG MAORIS

DUE TO SUPERSTITION. LACK OF EDUCATION. (By Telegraph.) (From Our Parliament.-!ry Reporter.) WELLINGTON. Julv 23. Disconcrting reports appearing in the press of late in regard to movements of unrest amongst tl.e Maoris were referred tn in Ihe House to-day bv the lion. Ngata. If (’ducatinn had prevailed tn a greater extent and been directed against the superstitious ideas, ho said, there would be less misunderstanding due to ignorance. Mr Ngata said lie was not singling out any one movement for comment. Unrest came nnd went from time to time. Most, of the movements among the natives, however. emanated from the western Maori district. There the greatest ('durational weakness lay. Where they were well educated the Maori people were not •’> easily affected, and they were not subject to new church and other reaction ary movement. The western Maoris bore the same kind of grievance as the Irish people had had for centuries. They had at the back of their minds the idea that the European people had stolen their lands in years gone by. and he submitted that, education was the means of removing the idea.