Economic Improvement

Te Ao Hou, June 1963, Page 49

Economic Improvement Situated until recently on an unhealthy tidal creek that has since been drained, the pa also now has new approach roads and a regular bus service into the city. This means that for many in the pa, work is no longer restricted to employment in local market gardens or farms where wages are traditionally low. Today, many in the settlement have found work not only in Auckland but also in suburban industrial areas like Otahuhu and Penrose. Consequently, with economic improvement, living standards in the pa have risen considerably and new needs created: among them, the need to own, among other things, television sets. Whether this new need was inevitable or is justified under the circumstances is unimportant, compared with the problem of its effect upon the community in both children and adults.