LAND UNDER MAORI MANAGEMENT Maori Incorporations have been with us for almost forty years, but just lately they have rapidly grown in importance to a strong force in the farming and forest industry of New Zealand. They have become an efficient instrument for using profitably much of the lands and the forest still held by Maori owners in common. The success of Maori incorporations over the last generation has, just lately, enabled parliament to put the assets of the East Coast Trust, worth several million pounds, into the hands of 24 incorporations, which are being formed at the present moment. This article describes the place these incorporations occupy in Maori life today and in the New Zealand economy. In order to give the reader a closer look at the workings of these incorporations, the tale of the establishment of Maori management over the East Coast Trust stations will be told in some detail. This will provide an ending to the dramatic story of the East Coast Commission, of which the beginning was published in our issue of winter 1954. It is hoped this will satisfy readers who may have become a little impatient for the continuation of that story. For the material about the early history of the incorporations, we have to thank Mr W. T. Ngata, who compiled a wealth of facts, until now inaccessible, for the use of Te Ao Hou. The sea beats on all sides against Onenui station, on the northern tip of Mahla peninsula. The station, now controlled by its incorporated owners, was used for the cattle-drafting scene in the film ‘Broken Barrier’, (Pacific Films Photograph.)