INDUSTRIOUS MAORIS
A PROGRESSIVE SETTLEMENT
Mangamuka can well lay claim to be the most progressive agricultural community in Northland. There every, piece of land which can be worked easily is under cultivation, and .the chairman of the Hokianga Maori Council, Mr O. Otene, says that 144 acres already have been planted in such crops as kumaras and potatoes. Twenty-one horses are engaged in the work of cultivation. The orderly arrangement of the plantations is a demonstration of what can be achieved in many Northland districts. Perhaps one reason why the Mangamuka natives are so far ahead of other settlements, both Maori ahd pakeha, is that they reside in a district remote from the distractions and attractions of town life.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1943, Page 4
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119INDUSTRIOUS MAORIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1943, Page 4
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