MAORI FARMERS
NORTH AUCKLAND SCHEME
MINISTER IMPRESSED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Minister. of Native Affairs ,(Sir Apirana Ngata), on his return from an official inspection of Maori land settlements at Kaipara, Hokianga, Whangaroa, and Bay of Islands, said he was greatly impressed 'with the extent to which' costs were being kept down. The people were very keen, and Batana followers, particularly those around Kaikohe, who used to be against the^ scheme, were now favourable to it. Maori farmers were now supplying fourteen dairy factories in the North Auckland district, and the cream grading returns were well up to the standard set by the Natives' European neighbours. - The Minister added that about 80 per cent, of the relief workers in the Kaikohe district were Natives, and if.the settlement scheme could be properly established there the number on relief could bo reduced by nearly two-thirds. . ■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 14
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