Allegations that the Maoris in the Kaitaia district were abusing the unemployment relief system were made at a meeting of the Kaitaia branch of the Farmers' Union. Natives receiving relief pay are spending this money in the hotels and are not paying their storekeepers, said Mr. T. S. Houston. Men were receiving relief who were not entitled to it, as they had farms and good herds of cows. Mr. A. W. Masters said Maoris were being paid to work on their own farms, yet they would not help to erect a boundary fence between their land and that of Europeans. Mr. L. L. Pettit said it was not fit for European women and children to be in the main street of Kaitaia on some Saturdays, on account of the drunken Maoris reeling about.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4875, 25 July 1936, Page 8
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