Subsidy offer for Maori youths

Press, 6 November 1978, Page 7

Subsidy offer fo r Maori youths

Maori trade apprentices will have special incentive subsidies from a Labour government, according to the member of Parliament for Southern Maori (Mrs Whetu Tirikatene-Sulli-I van). I About 60 people attend- | ed Mrs Tirikatene-Sulli-j van’s election campaign • opening address at | hiwi. j She said that a Labour I Government would subsi- ! dise the wages of a Maori ! apprentice up to 100 per, I cent in special cases. | Mrs Tirikatene-Sullivan ; said outstanding land I claims must be settled.. ! “We will recognise that there is still outstanding land claims and we will set up a Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal to consider land claims,” she said. On education, she said ! that 69 of every 100

Maori school leavers left without any qualifications. They wanted to organise a system where Maori children passed through as successful graduates to an extent that they could not today. Mrs Tirikatene-Sullivan estimated that true unemployment in New Zealand was 10 per cent of the work-force. "The Maori people are being affected four times as much as the community,” she said. She then went on to clarify her stand on abortion. “My stand is that the decision is a deeply persona! thing, and not mine, or Muldoon’s or Gill’s.” she said. “It is for you to make up your own mind.” Her address was followed by a discussion on the closing of the two Christ* church Maori youth hos-