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ranks depleted by marriages, not only with full Europeans but with 
Maoris of mixed blood. The question is whether the full Maoris are 
reproducing enough to make up for the wastage from their ranks by death 
and marriage. To keep up their numbers they must, of course, marry 
full Maoris themselves. Ever Maori who marries any one not of 
full blood like himself has deliberately stepped outside the narrowing 
confines of the full-bloods, and the more children he begets the more he is 
assisting in changing the full Maori into another type. 
An idea prevails that the full Maori is really decreasing in this manner, 
and it is the mixed part of the Maori population that is causing the increase 
in the census returns. А very significant fact was brought to light by the 
returns kindly sent me by the Native-school teachers. In the proportion 
of sexes already dealt with the return for over 4,000 children of full and 
mixed blood was 921 females per 1,000 males. Returns for 1,159 children 
of the same series enumerated the sexes in each class from full blood to the 
Num 
Race. Males. Females. Females per 
5 1,000 Males. 
e E 818 238 748 
Mixed blood a apg i ы: 290 926 
The numbers are too small, but the hint is so important that I give 
them. If in the improved condition of the total Maori population the 
improvement augured by the increase in the proportion of males applies 
only to the mixed-blood element, whilst with the full Maori it is falling, 
In conclusion, I have to thank the Майте teachers for sending 
me returns om their schools showing the proportion of sexes and the 
amount of mixed blood amongst their pupils. Available data from the 
The large pre-European population will never be regained by the full- 
blooded race, but the steady increase of the last twenty years shows there 
is in the old tribal proverb, “ We will never be lost, for we 
ed whi y 
ERE 
scegenation ha ped 
render the assimilation of culture and physieal features the stepping-ston 
to the evolution of a future type of New-Zealander in which we hope the 
best features of the Maori race will be perpetuated for ever. 
