Fraser To Make tori Tour Of North Island

Northern Advocate, 8 March 1947, Page 8

Fraser To Make tori Tour Of North Island

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. This Day. To meet Maoris in their own communities and inspect a number of land development schemes. the Prime Minister is to leave next Saturday on an intensive tour covering most of the North Island.

Mr Fraser will be accompanied by the Hon. E. T. Tirikatene, member representing the Maori race on the Executive Council, by Mr G. P. Shepherd, Under-Secretary of the Native Department, and by Mr A. S. Blackburn, Chief Supervisor of the Maori Development. The party will visit a number of land development schemes on the East Coast, in the Waikato and in Northland.

At Mahia iVis to'inspect a carved house—one of the oldest in New Zealand—which is being restored with Government assistance.

At Hicks Bay the party will see a portable crusher at work on lime deposits there, supplying the lime requirements of Maori landowners in the district.

At Ruatoki, one of the biggest Maori dairying schemes will be inspected, and the party will then go to the Rotorua district to see major land deevlopment schemes there. NORTHLAND ITINERARY The tour will take Mr Fraser as far north as Kaikohe, and he will then return via Auckland to the East Coast, and thence to Ngaruawahia to attend the regatta there on March 29. He will return to Wellington via the KiHg Country. On March 24: He will inspect schemes in Auckland and Northland area.

On March 25: He will open the new Kaikohe College and a new school at Rawene. On March 26: He will hold a discussion on land matters at Mangamuka. The following day he will attend a gathering at Joseph Savage Memorial.