ORAKEI VILLAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1936, Page 5

ORAKEI VILLAGE.

"MENACE TO HEALTH." SUGGESTIONS TO GOVERNMENT. The suggestion that the Government should provide suitable land in some other locality and that sufficient inducement should be given to the Maoris inhabiting the Orakei village to persuade them to shift to some other site was contained in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. M. J. Savage, by Mr. A. A. Ross, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The matter arose from an executive discussion in which it was pointed out that the present position—with an unsightly group of bfiildings without water supply, drainage or proper sanitation— constituted an eyesore to the city and was a district menace to public health. The letter pointed out that the problem had a history as old as the city of Auckland and that a previous suggestion that a model Maori village be established had had no result. Problems associated with the native title would have to be decided, and it was felt that only the Government could take appropriate action. The Orakei natives were the only surviving members of the tribe from which the original city site was purchased and which had proved of great assistance in the stormy days of early settlement. The letter was approved at to-day's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce.

Suffering injuries to her back when she fell at work yesterday, Thelma Joyce Langer, aged 21, was taken to the Auckland Hospital in a St. John ambulance last night, but her condition is not serious. Miss Langer is employed bv the Farmers' Trading Company, Limited, and lives in Regina Street. Grey Lynn.