Far North Maori Policy Questioned
Fairly large shipments of gum are leaving Parenga every month, but it looks as if there will be a gradual decline in the activities around the harbour.
The natives of Te Hapua are being Induced to leave their old ancestral lands and fishing grounds and take. up their residence at Ngataki, where an endeavour is being made ter convert some very poor land into produc-: tiveness. !
Not long ago a great deal of public money was spent on the Te Hapua School, where a cookhouse, costing in the vicinity of £IOOO, has been built. If the natives are' to be encouraged to leave the settlement the question arises as to whether this money was wisely spent. It is understood that a new cable telephone is to be laid from Awanui to the lighthouse 'at Cape Maria Van Diemen.
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Northern Advocate, 8 September 1938, Page 2
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