MAORI MEMORIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 December 1939, Page 3

MAORI MEMORIES

NGATA’S LAND SCHEME. (Recorded by J.U.S. for “Times-Age.”) In the Native Lands Administration .Board's work which in some instances "controls" the administration of huge blocks of Maori land, the real owners have merely nominal ownership, and have lost personal interest, making (hem merely dependents in receipt of sustenance, a condition which lends to reproduce and multiply a class of mendicants. The ownership and administration should bo individualised and personally conducted by each worker as in Sii- Aparima Ngata's plan. The finance and mode of working should each be under the direction and control of a practical supervisor, unless or until he has educated the occupier in those essentials of success. 'file splendid results of Ngata's practical. individual Maori land ownership, its personal working, central dairy factory, and road access are little known. Strange to say lhe only comprehensive reports of it are to be found in the diary of a traveller in New Zealand written in the form of a most interesting narrative by Rosemary Rees, and published in England as a novel of outstanding merit.