MAORI FARMERS.
STUDENTS AT RUAKURA.
PROGRESS AT RUATOKI. (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Wednesday. Some of the keenest students of the 32 attending the farm school at present being held at the Ruakura Farm are members of a Maori party which has come from the progressive Maori settlement of Ruatoki in the Urewera Country. It is t.ie firet time that Maoris have attended the farm schools at Ruakura. There are eight in the party and their ages range from 22 to 50. The Maori party, which is in the charge of Mr. F. Merrett, supervisor at jthe Ruatoki settlement, ie representative of the biggest single unit Maori settlement in the Dominion. The settlement is looked upon as an example to others, for its Maori farmers are very conscientious, and the settlement is m the proud position of being able to boast the highest butterfat production in comparison with other settlements, thr! production last year amounting to half a million pounds of fat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 21
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162MAORI FARMERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 21
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