MAORIS DRIFT TO CITY
ACCOMMODATION PROBLEM Concern at the drift to the city of Maori families was expressed at a meeting of the' Auckland City Council, and it was stated that the Native Affairs Department had been approached on the matter. It was impossible to ■ provide suitable living quarters for these people, with the result that they went to what were virtually slum areas. The council had under consideration a house which had been condemned as unfit for human habitation, but it could not be demolished as a Maori and his wife and 10 children were in occupation. It was stated that this man had been milking 35 cows in the country, but had come to the city. He had been given employment with the council through the Placement Office, and the wife was working In a Chinese garden, the children being left to care for themselves, in the house, which had practically no furni* ture. It was decided not to disturb this family until after the holiday period.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24783, 6 December 1941, Page 2
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