DISTRESSING CONDITIONS
HOUSING OF ROTORUA MAORIS. BOARD’S LOAN OF £2OOO. IBy Telegraph—Press Association.) ROTORUA, To-day. The Arawa district trust board, concerned at distressing housing conditions [amongst some natives in its district, has decided to loan £2OOO for the immediate relief of more urgent cases. Members of the board recently carried out a tour of the district and visited a number of the more remote maracs, where they found natives living in one-roomed whaTes nvhich could* not even be dignified by the namfe of shanties.
According to the chairman of the board, Mr H. Tai Mitchell, urgent representations were being mia.de by the board to the Government to expedite promised legislation to assist the natives to obtain better housing conditions. Mr Mitchell said that in some cases whole families were found living in a single room without even a weatherproof roof over their heads.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 6
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143DISTRESSING CONDITIONS Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 6
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