WELFARE OF THE MAORI.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4501, 6 September 1930, Page 3

WELFARE OF THE MAORI.

HOSPITAL BOARD’S APPEAL TO MINISTER. A deputation from the Palmersi on North Hospital Board comprising Messrs .T. K. Ilornblow (Board chairman), .J. A. Nash, M.P., (chairman of the Social Welfare Committee), Monk (chairman of the Otaki Hospital Committee), and Messrs W. H. Field, M.P., for Otaki and J. Linklater, M.P., for Manawatu, waited upon the Minister Cor Native Affairs (Sir Apairana Ngata) at Wellington yesterday, with a request- for financial aid to assist the Board in connection with hospital treatment and the district nursing of Maori patients.

The Minister gave a sympatheic reply and promised to recoinnend a grant from the Maori Purposes Fund.

AN ECONOMIC SURVEY. An item of £0)00 on this year’s Estimates for the Native Department for the purpose of an economic. survey of the- Maori race aroused curiosity in the House of Representatives yesterday.

The Minister of Native Affairs (the Hon. Sir Apirann Ngata) said that an economic survey of the Native race had been commenced already, and it was no merely perfunctory move. Two officers were now at work laying the foundations for such a scheme, and one was particularly addressing himself to the district, between Wellington and Eoxton. Tlie idea was to investigate Hie conditions in the villages, l lie mode of living, etc., with a view to determining how the Maoris could be helped. He asked an exJndgc of the Native Land Court, Mr. R,. C. Sim, to lay a foundation in the Manawatu district, and his work would be taken as a model for other officers to follow in other parts of Hie North Island.