WELFARE OF MAORIS

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4958, 20 February 1937, Page 5

WELFARE OF MAORIS

MAORI AND PAKEHA FEDERATION. MEETING AT ROTORUA. A resolution to support the Government should it decide to establish an Arts and Crafts School at Te Kuiti was carried .at the meeting of the executive of the Maori and Pakeha Federation in Rotorua on Saturday. The establishment of adult education in farming methods, particularly in areas such as this district where the Native Development scheme was operating, was also urged. Health and Housing. At the executive meeting Messrs. Pei Hurunui Jones and T. M. Hetet were asked to make a survey of health and housing in the Ngatimaniapoto district and to report. Rating. It was resolved at the meeting that Mr. Pei Hurunui Jones be asked to furnish a report on the Native rating problem and present to the next meeting. A reply has been received from the Minister for Health agreeing to give immediate effect to motions previously passed regarding increased nurses and subsidised medical men. Seven new appointments have recently been. made to the nursing l division and the Minister of Health states further requirements will be considered as they arise. The method of subsidising medical practitioners in certain districts shall be cancelled and that, instead, Maori patients shall be permitted to seek the advice of their own medical practitioners, providin'" that it is not necessary to summon a doctor for any great distance, or from another district—in some districts it will still be necessary to retain the subsidised ' doctor.