Maoris May Adopt Islanders
p. 85 · Read in the full issue
UNDER the terms of a Maori Affairs Bill coming before Parliament in Wellington next session, the child adoption customs of the New Zealand Maoris will be modified. Whereas in the past Maoris have been permitted to adopt only Maoris, they will, when the Bill is passed, be able in future to also adopt “certain other Poly nesian children.”
The Cook Islanders and the Maoris, although separated by some hundreds of years, are so close to gether racially, that they can con verse; and the link between Maoris, Cook Islanders and Tahitians is almost as close.