NATIVE POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 130, 6 June 1929, Page 10

NATIVE POLICY

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

FARMING THE GREATEST NEED

: The future course of Maori develop, meat, and the use that is being made' of various moneys held in trust for the Native race were referred to by tho Minister 1 for Native Affairs (the Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata) in a speech at Tnahiwi on Tuesday. . „-..:■ : ; The Maori Purposes Fund, he said ™*Js* iivl924. • There was about £130,000 m the . possession of ' the Native Land Board accumulated from rents and interest. A sum of £90 000 was therefore set aside for various Maorr purposes. Although five years had passed since the legislation, they had kept the fund carefully, and had not had to apply to the Native Land Boards for contributions. Of the £90 000 ™ the fund, only £850 iiad been contributed by the South Island, and therefore the fund was mainly a North Island fund. The supreme claim on the tS a 7£ s,edacati°a- Of recent years the Board had turned its attention more to the improvement of the health of the people in^ the North Island, said Sir Apirana They had been attempting to bring about Maori unity by getting the X ollß'^- 3 tOgether f^ tennis Band other athletic meetings. Sir Anirana. expressed the hope that: a fund would 'f e*l Ot £ P f°rthe South Island similar to the Maori Purposes Fund He disapproved of the idea of multiplication of Native schools. It would .oo better to establish scholarships and send their best young men toTe Ante. The friendships- created at school and iSv^r 03' im Pwtant for the solittli 7 ™ ? race- The neatest need ■■«„« n^° X '■* *'aay was the "rganisation of Maori farming. - :•'