Maori Housing.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1938, Page 4

Maori Housing.

About 40 houses are now under construction by the Public Works Department in the South Auckland land district for indigent Maoris or for use by Maoris on land development schemes. In the North Auckland district a large number are being built near Whangarei and further north. American Efficiency. An example of the efforts made by Americans to complete a job in as short a period as possible was seen by Mr J. R. McKenzie, of Christchurch, while attending the Rotary Convention at San Francisco last month as the delegate of the Christchurch Rotary Club. “The Municipal Auditorium building is to be used as the Hall of Friendship,” states Mr McKenzie .in a letter to the club. “The medical conference has just been held in this building, and this conference was finished the day before Rotary started. It was necessary to have everything removed and redecorated for the Rotary Convention. Two hundred and fifty men were put on for the job, and in 48 hours they had it completely redecorated. There are more than 2000 rose plants, trees and shrubs of every description. Such decorations I have never seen before. This is the only building which will accommodate the vast crowd that will attend the President’s ball, and it will be necessary to remove the whole of these decorations for tonight’s ball, when they will be replaced again for Wednesday night.”