MAORI HOUSING
CONDEMNED PREMISES. CHILDREN HALF NAKED. AUCKLAND, August 18. “The position is an absolute disgrace to civilisation,” said Mr F. M. Waters, chairman of the ManuKnu County Council, when the council was discussing the conditions under which some Maoris are living at Mangere, on the outskirts of Auckland. The inspector reported on one case of five adults and three children living in a lean-to shed, the front of which was covered with wire netting. There was no furniture and no drainage. (Pliers were living in a cowshed. Mr Waters said that the lean-to had been described as a rabbit hutch. It was unfit to house Maoris. There was another case where eight Maoris were living -in premises which the council had condemned for use by Chinese. The Chines e moved to another building, and the Maoris were forced to take their place. Another member of the Council said that he had never seen anything like it. It was no wonder that the Maoris were dying out when some were living under such conditions. The inspector had found some of the children half
naked. The Council resolved that a notice be served on the property owners concerned to provide suitable accommodation within fourteen days.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1931, Page 4
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