NEW MAORI VILLAGE TO REPLACE "WHAKA"
ROTORUA, August II. Tlie days of the Maori village of Whakarewarewa, two miles from Rotorua, are numbered. Under a sclieme for which the Maoris are seeking Govennneut support the present dilapidated village will be alinost whollv demolished and a new and up-to-date"centro built on a site about a niile away. Tlie land on which it is lioped to rebuilt Whakarewarewa is at present a Htate forest area, but the Maoris eontend that thev have a (51-year-old ciaim on it in compensation for property destroved in the Tarawera eruption of 188(5. * 8et in an unhealthy area and alinost continually cloaked in a dense cloud of steam, the 100 or so houses in which the 200 to 800 inhabitants of the village now live are m a shocking state. Many of the houses are little , better than broken-down sliacks. Staiiding at crazv angles, their timbers rotting and the paint lohg since worn from the vvulls, most of the houses at Whakarewarewa have long been a reproach. The neglected village is oue of the iirst siglits the tourist is shown in Rotorua. It hus not given the visitors the best impressirxis of the tlierinal regions. On alinost lcvel ground beliind the Rotorua aerodrome, the site for tho prpposed new village covers some 200 acres. It is almost free from geysei activity.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 August 1947, Page 2
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