LARGE PERCENTAGE
MAORI MEMBERSHIP TAIRAWHITI PIG COUNCIL So great has been the interest of the Maoris of the Gisborne, East Coast and Wairoa districts in the pig club movement that almost onethird of the total membership of the clubs under control of the Tairawhiti District Pig Council are natives. This was disclosed in figures made available bv the council’s supervisor, Mr. H. A. Hopkins, who stated that with the new club recently formed near Wai-o-matatini the Maori membership had been raised to 102, the total of both races in the pig club movement in the district being slightly over 300. Such a large percentage is not surprising to those closely associated
•th the movement, for there are five clubs with an all-Maori membership and several other clubs with large proportions of natives in their numbers. The five all-Maori clubs, in themselves, account for 60 to 70 members.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20122, 16 December 1939, Page 16
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147LARGE PERCENTAGE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20122, 16 December 1939, Page 16
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