MAORI PEOPLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 5

MAORI PEOPLE.

REVIVAL OF CULTURE.

LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEMES.

RECIPROCAL VISITATIONS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Discussing native land settlement movements in various parts of the North Island and the part they are playing in bringing about a revival of culture and traditions of the Maori people, Sir Apirana Ngata, Minister of Native Affairs, commended the spirit of tribal rivalry and better understanding fostered as a result of reciprocal visits between parties from different settlement schemes during the past two years. Those administering the schemes had been encouraging and promoting an interchange of visits between leading men interested in these land development movements, the Minister explained, so as to promote better understanding of the settlement policy. Sir Apirana is convinced that as a result of these visits the effort to assist the Maori people to utilise their lands in a reasonably effective manner will do more than anything else to promote the solution of the social and economic difficulties peculiar to the Maori race.