“MAORI VILLAGES ARE SLUMS”
Travel Agent’s Views On Tourist Potential
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, August 24. Rotorua’s Maori villages are nothing but European slums compared with similar native villages in more sophisticated parts of the world, according to a Dunedin travel agent, Mr I. Mitchell, who has returned to Dunedin after a world trip touching nine countries. "One thing we could do is develop the tourist potential of the Maori’s fabulous culture.” he said today. “I don’t advocate going to the lengths of Hawaii in developing a synthetic native atmosphere, but travellers want to see Maori things and the Maoris are letting themselves down to a large extent,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29292, 25 August 1960, Page 20
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