Housing Of Maoris Continues Apace

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31542, 2 December 1967, Page 42

Housing Of Maoris Continues Apace

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, December 1.

The Minister of Maori Affairs (Mr Hanan) announced today that almost one-third of the Maori people had been provided with houses during the last seven years.

From 1938 to this year, 21,300 houses had been provided for Maoris, 11,653 of them in toe last seven years to accommodate between 60,000 and 70,000 people, he said. The Maori people had obtained their houses through State Advances loans, State rental, and toe Maori Affairs Department’s programme, toe Minister went on. “State Advances loans and rental houses are available to all New Zealanders,” be said, “but because there are proportionately more Maoris in

toe low-income group, they receive more State rental houses.”

Referring to the success of toe Maori trade training scheme, toe Minister said that this year 222 Maori youths were in training. Next year there would be about 270, of whom 204 would be training for toe first time. “There were 1072 Maori registered apprentices at March 31 this year, which means there are more than 1500 young Maori men in training as tradesmen, compared with only 440 in May, 1959,” said Mr Hanan.