HOSTEL IN ROTORUA

Te Ao Hou, Winter 1954, Page 40

HOSTEL IN ROTORUA However, the conference did lead to interesting new developments in four practical issues of the day: hostels, broadcasts, race relations and temperance. To begin with the most ‘practical’ issue of all, conference endorsed the executive's appointment of a management committee for a Maori apprentices' hostel, to be jointly managed by the constituent churches at Rotorua. This Rotorua hostel makes church history, as it is the first permanent social service undertaken by the constituent churches (Church of England, Presbyterian Church, Methodist Church) in collaboration. The name of the hostel—appropriately—is to be Whanaungatanga (Unity). The management committee is to include three local representatives of each of the three constituent churches, three members elected from the Maori Section executive, and one co-opted, but with power to vote, from each of the following: Vocational Guidance Council, District Maori Welfare Officer, Arawa Maori Trust Board, Maori Women's Welfare Leagues, District Council of Tribal Executives, Maori Women's Health Leagues, making in all the very large number of eighteen members.