Bureau To Help Jobless Maoris
(New Zealand Preu Auociation)
AUCKLAND, August 6. A Maori advice bureau to help Maori unemployed will be set up in the Trades Hall, Auckland. The bureau will probably be opened next week.
Today a day of sports and social activities was held at Victoria Park to raise funds for the bureau.
Mrs G. Bidois, president of the Waitemata District Council of the Maori Women’s Welfare League, said there was very high unemployment among Maoris and Islanders in Auckland, but many would not register at the Labour Department as unemployed.
She said the bureau would be set up and staffed by Maoris to help these people to overcome their problems.
She said many Maoris found it difficult to discuss their problems with a pakeha and Maori officers would probably overcome this. The bureau would be run
In conjunction with the Maori Community Centre, and it was hoped that other local branches within the welfare league would co-ordinate their relief work.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31441, 7 August 1967, Page 1
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