HOW CAN MIGRATION SUCCEED?

Te Ao Hou, September 1961, Page 62

HOW CAN MIGRATION SUCCEED? Summing up, one is struck with the smooth way this small group of girls were able to settle into the city. The fatherly help of the firm, the support of Mrs Manuel were sufficient to overcome, in these cases, the various difficulties of Maori youth one hears so much about. The simple remedy was to spend a little time meeting the essential needs of the young migrant. At the same time, it is clear that such help was very much needed. The accommodation problem was too tough for the girls to handle really well independently. All the little gestures made in the first few days in the city were necessary to give the girls enough security to settle in well. Furthermore little things did keep on happening which, with the guidance they had, were quickly remedied but they could easily have become big things. Most young Maori people have the ability, by and large, to succeed in the city. But many can succeed only with a little help. —E.G.S.