GUIDING MAORI YOUTH
Suggested Role For Women’s League
(Neu> Zealand Preu Association/ NEW PLYMOUTH, April 26. The Maori Women's Welfare League could play a very effective part in guiding Maori youth into a channel of responsibility and respect to their own people, said the Acting-Minister of Maori Affairs (Mr Tirikatene) at Waitara tonight.
The league could help them to find their proper place in various avenues of employment and give valuable assistance and guidance, he said. “Many members of the league are mothers who well know how to bring young people up properly, and most of these mothers would like to lend a hand to the youngsters so that their future pathways in new occupations among strangers would be easier,” he said. “Greater authority should be given the league and I am quite sure that if this were done its members would give the assistance needed by our youth.” Mr Tirikatene said he thought Maori youth was progressing away from the ordinary manual tasks and that many were able to take on work in more selective fields.
Mr Tirikatene will officially open the Dominion conference of the league at New Plymouth tomorrow.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29190, 28 April 1960, Page 18
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