MAORIS AND AUSTRALIAN PENSIONS.
A PROTEST PROM THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT.
(Per Press Association. * WELLINGTON, August 12. The Hon. J. Carroll, Acting-Prime Minister, has sent the following cablegram to Mr. Deakin, Prime Minister of Australia: “The New Zealand Government regrets to learn by cable that the Federal Government has seen fit to exclude Maoris from the benefits of the old age pension scheme. In New Zealand the Maoris enjoy equal peusions and legal privileges with the European »op ulatioiu Therefore, the exclusion seems an unfair restriction,_ especialy as we do not place any special restriction on Australian native born, and hence an aboriginal native Australian would he entitled' to a pension under our law. The characteristic disinclination of Maoris to permanently reside outside their own land reduces the prospect of any call on your pension fund on their account to a minimum.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2579, 13 August 1909, Page 4
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142MAORIS AND AUSTRALIAN PENSIONS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2579, 13 August 1909, Page 4
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