SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE
MAORIS ON EAST COAST FAILURE OF THEIR CI^OPS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GISBORNE, Thursday Some alarm has been expressed on the east coast at the possibility of a food shortage among the Maoris owing to the failure of thoir potato and kumara crops. The crops have failed throughout the whole of the Gisborne and East Coast districts, and also in the Wairoa and Mohaka areas, and arrangements are being made to secure supplies from tho South to tide over the Maori people during tlio winter, where help is necessary. The coutinued wet weather has been the cause of the crops failing to provide the usual yield, and, as the Maori relies a great deal on the kumara and the potato, this failure is a Berious matter among a large number of natives. The Waiapu Hospital Board, at its meeting this week, took a serious view of the matter, and decided to write to the Native Department asking; for an investigation. Inquiries in Gisborne this morning revealed that negotiations are being made for a supply of potatoes from -the South.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22355, 28 February 1936, Page 12
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