Those Who Can Look After Themselves

Te Ao Hou, May 1957, Page 48

Those Who Can Look After Themselves The second of the two exceptions to our general housing policy is the group—I am glad to say a steadily increasing group—who have grown up in the European way of life and are able to make their financial and other arrangements for housing on the same footing as their European fellow citizens. To these people we say in varying degrees: “We are very busy helping your kinsmen who cannot look after themselves in housing You can look after yourselves. You must do so and let us concentrate on the others”. Some we send straight over the road to the State Advances Corporation or other lending organisations; some

we help only with advice; some we assist in straightening out little difficulties and let them carry on from there; some we help with loans but leave them to arrange for the actual building themselves. Dave Wiki of Ngataki examines his cream. Ten years ago. Ngataki was an unproductive expanse of sand; now its butterfat production competes with the rest of the Far North. (NPS PHOTOGRAPH)