MAORIS AS FARMERS
VALUE OF SCHEME Acknowledging tributes paid to him by Messrs. Taite te Tomo, ex-M.P. for the Western Maori electorate, and by Hongihongi Kapara, the paramount chief of the Maniapoto and Waikato tribes,, at the Te Kopua jubilee celebrations, Mr. W. .). Broadfoot, M.P. for Waitomo, said the Maori land settlement scheme inaugurated by Sir Apirana Ngata and continued by Princess Te Pnea Herangi, was proving a great asset to the Maori race. The plan had spread over the Dominion, and there were 74 schemes under way, covering about 600,000 acres. His advice to the Maoris was to work amicably with the department, because it had ; the capital, and the officers had the de- ' sire and will to help them. The Maori j settlers should seize every opportunity for advancing the settlement scheme as a means of becoming independent farmI ers, Mr, Broadfoot added.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 9
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