OLD MAORI PA AT AUCKLAND
HITCH IN. EXCHANGE FOR STATE HOUSES (P.A.) AUCKLAND, February 22. There is a hitch in plans for moying Orakei Maoris to new State houses, so that the old shacks in the pa on Tamaka drive, on the Auckland waterfront, can be demolished. Part of the pa land, occupied by shacks, tents, and an old house, all overcrowded with Maoris, is Crown property, but about two and a half acres of Maori land is held on a clear title. The elderly owner of this is apparently unwilling to relinquish her interest, though younger members of her family would enter new houses in Watene Crescent, behind the pa, as State tenants.
Meanwhile more squatters have moved in on the Crown land; and there may be a problem in getting them off.
There will eventually be about 40 State houses, mostly with three or four bedrooms, on Bastion point above the pa. The difficulties of the Maori Affairs Department is to get possession of each shack when vacated, and demolish it immediately. The department is likely to get possession only in return for the keys to a State house.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 111, 23 February 1950, Page 6
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191OLD MAORI PA AT AUCKLAND Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 111, 23 February 1950, Page 6
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