Future Of The Maori Race

AN outstanding NZ Maori leader, Sir Apirana Ngata, said recently that a great future lay ahead of the Pacific, and that New Zealand; was on the way to becoming the centre of the Poly nesian peoples.

At a gathering of Maoris in Wellington, Sir Apirana, who is also a former Cabinet Minister, said the nations of the world paid scant attention to the Pacific before 1941. But that had changed. To-day, the eyes of the world were upon it.

He said the Maoris were rapidly grow ing in numbers, and that inside the next half-century they would increase by from five to six hundred thousand. He made an appeal to them to take a bigger part in the economic, social and commercial life of New Zealand, and to keep alive their native traditions and bring about a full revival of Maori culture.