MAORIS AND CHINESE
living in insanitary sheds COUNTY COUNCIL TAKES ACTION [Peb United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 21. The problem of Maori and Chinese families living at Mangere in old buildings often without permission of the property owners was the subject of a report to the Manukau County Council to-day by the county inspector who stated that' Natives in particular were occupying old sanitary sheds as dwellings. The trouble had been aggravated by an influx of Maoris from distant places taking advantage of employment on relief works in the Hillsborough and Onehunga districts. Notice for cleaning and repairing the buildings occupied by the Chinese had also been insisted oh. In all instances cleaning had been done but many cases of repairs had not been done and the council, meeting in committee on Friday last, decided to serve closing orders. Some wore old storage sheds and one was a cowshed. The council decided to-day to send a copy of the inspector’s report to the Minister of Native Affairs and another to the AWrana Maori Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 22989, 21 June 1938, Page 8
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174MAORIS AND CHINESE Evening Star, Issue 22989, 21 June 1938, Page 8
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