NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 7

NATIVE AFFAIRS.

Commi*6ion Resumes Ijnquiry. GRANT FOR FOOTBALL. TEAM. Per Press Assocla tion. AUCKLAND, April 20. _ The Native Affairs Inquiry* Commission to-day resumed examination of Edward P. Earle, registrar of the Tokerau and Waikato-Maniapoto Land Boards, who said he had only a superficial knowledge of the details cf the method under which stores were bought and distributed. The board was very much in the hands of the field officers. There were 727 development units. He thought that the accountant or stores clerk could give information as to stores control methods. Cyril George Collins, representing the Controller and Auditor-Genera], produced a minute bock of the Maori Purposes Fund and read various minutes. He said that usually only a quorum was present. At ong meeting there were present the Native Minister, the Maori M.P. for the South Island and Dr Buck, who was then in New Zealand on holiday. That meeting passed a resolution authorising expenditure on a Maori football team and a visit t.o Rarotonga. Witness would not express an opinion as to the eating up of £9OOO m capital and £3OOO for education purposes.