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E ai ki a Ray Fargher, te kaituhi i te oranga o McLean , he tangata pūkaha, he hao nui a McLean , he kaiponu hoki i tāna mana whakahaere, he nui tāna ake whakaaro ki tōna pono ake. Ā, tērā rā anō hoki tāna, he ahakoa ko tā ōna hoa kainoho, he pai noa ki a ia te tuku kia whai wāhi iti mai te iwi Māori ki roto o ngā wāhanga hanga ture, ā-tōrangapū hoki.
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McLean's biographer Ray Fargher shows McLean to be a person with much drive and ambition, extremely reluctant to share power or delegate, and with a very high opinion of his own integrity. At the same time he was markedly more willing than most of his settler contemporaries to allow Māori some limited say in the country's legislative and political structures. But ultimately he was at the heart of policies that led, as Fargher puts it, "to the political, economic and cultural marginalisation of the Māori within what had been their own country".
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