IMPROVIDENT MAORIS
POVERTY AND DISEASE. AUCKLAND, Monday. Poverty so abject that shells are used for spoons and sacks for bedding; overcrowding so bad that not one family is free from tuberculosis, and child mortality is 25 per cent; shiftlessness and improvidence so much a habit that although the waters are full of fish and cattle roam the hills, the community wastes an average income of £l5O a year on tinned foods, vile liquor and. old motor cars —these rvere conditions revealed to the Acting-Minister of Native Affairs, the Hon. F. Langstone, on his visit to the Maori settlement of Te Ilapua, on the shores of Parengarcnga Harbour.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 2 February 1937, Page 8
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