MAORI PURPOSES FUND BOARD (ANNUAL REPORTS FOR THE YEARS ENDED 31st MARCH, 1939, AND 31st MARCH, 1940).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1940 Session I, G-11

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1940. NEW ZEALAND.

MAORI PURPOSES FUND BOARD (ANNUAL REPORTS FOR THE YEARS ENDED 31st MARCH, 1939, AND 31st MARCH, 1940).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly pursuant to Section 14 (2), of the Maori Pur-poses Act* 1934-35.

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1939. Sib, — Maori Purposes Fund Board, Wellington, 19th September, 1939. In compliance with the provisions of section 14 of the Maori Purposes Fund Act, 1934-35, I have the honour to submit a report of the operations, commitments, and estimates of the Maori Purposes Fund Board for the last financial year. I have, &c., H. R. H. Balneavis, Secretary The Chairman, Maori Purposes Fund Board. OPERATIONS. During the last financial year the Board again provided assistance by way of grants towards the education of Maori students at various educational institutions, and interest on outstanding grants towards the rebuilding and building of certain Maori secondary schools or colleges to the extent of £1,143 10s. The administration expenses of the Board amounted to £549 6s. lid. Health' and miscellaneous services during the year amounted to £699 13s. 3d. The interest on the Maori Purposes Fund at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum up to 31st March, 1939, amounting to £1,723 9s. 7d., together with the grant from the Consolidated Fund of £600, the sum of £4 os. Id. being net sales of publications, and £65 os. 6d. being excess of expenditure over income transferred to Accumulated Fund, comprised the annual income for the last financial year. The excess of expenditure over income was, therefore, £65 os. 6d., which was transferred, as previously stated, to Accumulated Fund. The statement of income and expenditure and balance-sheet, published separately in Paper 8.-l [Pt IV], give in detail the classification of the accounts and receipts and payments. MAORI PURPOSES FUND. The balance of the Board's fund as at the 31st March, 1938, amounting to £58,223 19s. Bd, together with the sum of £714 19s. sd. made up of miscellaneous receipts and interest at 3 per cent. on the fund of £1,723 9s. 7d., amounted to £60,662 Bs. Bd. The payments under all headings for the last financial year amounted to £1,825 9s. 6d. This left a cash balance in the Maori Purposes Fund as at the 31st March, 1939, of £58,836 19s. 2d. ESTIMATES FOR 1939-40 (INCLUSIVE OF GRANTS). The estimated expenditure for the current financial year (1939-40), inclusive of grants, is as per Schedule below :— Estimates, 1939-40. Income. Expenditure. Grant from Consolidated Fund towards— £ £ Administration Expenses— f £ Administration expenses 500 Salary: Secretary ]00 Equipment, &c. 100 Audit fee 21 600 Native Trustee's commission 60 Interest on Fund at 3 per cent., say — Depreciation, all sections 160 £58,000 (six months) \ | j-qq Insurance 8 £44,000 (six months) J Printing and stationery 1 Rent from cottages, Rotorua, say 50 Rent — Profit on publications 5 Bowen House 104 School-site (arrears) 76 Repairs to cottages 10 Travelling of carvers to various jobs 100 Freight and cartage 20 Sundry expenses 30 690 Grants—■ Half-wages : Princess Te Puea Herangi 105 Education : Free-place scholarships 500 Health services (assuming no further liabilities) 213 Polynesian Society 250 Assembling Maori carvings for Exhibition 75 Interest on unpaid school grants (half-vear) 322 1,465 £2,155 £2,155 No further grants may be made within income of Board.

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GENERAL. Maori Carved Meeting-house. During the year under review the Board has again been able to further assist the cause of the perpetuation of Maori arts and crafts. Under the direction of the Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata, a member of the Board, carving, tukutuku, kakaho, and kowhaiwhai work have been undertaken in connection with the Whangara Carved Meeting house north of Gisborne (which was officially opened in April, 1939), the Te Kaha Carved Meeting-house and the Treaty of Waitangi Carved Meeting-house at Waitangi, Bay of Islands, which are now nearing completion. The thanks of the Board are due to Sir Apirana Ngata and all those who did such excellent work. Lost Assets. Owing to the illness and subsequent death of the late Mr. Hamilton certain assets of the Maori Arts and Crafts Board amounting to £57 10s. 4d. could not be accounted for, and it is recommended that this amount be written off the books. Health Services. At the last annual meeting it was suggested that the meagre revenue of the Board should be relieved of the necessity for payment of the running-cost (£5O per annum) of the car used by the district nurse at Tikitiki and of the salary (£225 paid to the district nurse at Te Araroa. At the last meeting of the Board after approving payment of services in this connection up to 30th June, 1939, I was instructed to advise the Director-General of Health that no claims under this heading would be considered or met by the Board in the future. The Director-General of Health was accordingly advised. On the agenda for this meeting a claim for £76 ss. appears, which was received after the date of the last meeting, and which is submitted for consideration.

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1940. Sir, — Maori Purposes Fund Board, Wellington 28th August, 1940. In compliance with the provisions of section 14 of the Maori Purposes Fund Act, 1934-35, I have the honour to submit a report of the operations, commitments, and estimates of the Maori Purposes Fund Board for the financial year ended 31st March, 1940. I have, &c., Colin W Morrison, Secretary The Chairman, Maori Purposes Fund Board.

OBITUARY The Board records its appreciation of the interest manifested, and the efforts made towards the amelioration of the economic and social status of the Maori race by the late Prime Minister, Native Minister, and Chairman of the Maori Purposes Fund Board, the Right Hon. Michael Joseph Savage. In common with the rest of the Dominion, it deplores the passing of a great statesman, who was characterized by his human sympathy and understanding of the Native peoples. Likewise, the Board has suffered a loss through the death of its late Secretary, Mr. Henry Raumoa Huatahi Balneavis, who died on 13th May, 1940, and the Board records its sense of the great services rendered by him in carrying out the Board's policy and administration in all its ramifications, and grieves the loss. MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD. I have to report that the appointment of the three " appointed " members of the Board, the Right Hon. J G. Coates, and Messrs. Johannes C. Andersen and Gilbert Archey, lapsed on 12th May, 1938, pursuant to section 7 4) of the Maori Purposes Fund Act, 1934-35, the matter having apparently been overlooked by the late Secretary This fact has since been reported to you separately, and is at present under consideration. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. During the year under review one ordinary meeting of the Board was held. The statutory annual meeting was called, but was adjourned through the absence of a quorum. FUND. The balance of the Board's fund, invested at call with the Native Trustee, as at 31st March, 1940, was £58,524. The cash receipts for the year, including interest of £1,719 at 3 per cent, on the amount lodged with the Native Trustee, and a grant of £600 from the Consolidated Fund, aggregated £2,984. The cash payments, totalling £3,297, comprised grants ex Carnegie Fund of £486, administration expenses of £376, miscellaneous grants of £2,435. The Accumulated Fund of the Board at 31st March, 1940, was £46,888, in addition to which there is a fund of £14,300 to meet commitments of that amount due in respect of grants to three sectarian schools , the Carnegie Corporation Fund of £342 ; and other special funds aggregating £254. The excess of income over expenditure for the year amounted to £702.

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ESTIMATES, 1940-41. The estimates of income and expenditure for the ensuing year ending 31st March, 194-1, are appended below:— Income. ! Exjpeviclitv/vc, Interest on cash with Native Trust Office: 3 per £ £ | Administration expenses— £ £ cent, on £53,000 1,600 ! Audit fee 21 Grant from Consolidated Fund. 375 j Commission: Native Trustee 60 Bent from cottages: Rotorua to j Depreciation on assets 100 Profit on sale publications 1 Freight and cartage 10 2,016 Insurance 6 Repairs and maintenance 20 Rent 109 Salary : Seoretary 40 j Sundry expenses 10 [ Travelling-expenses 10 Water charge 6 392 Grants (subject to approval of Board) — Educational— Education Department—Free Place Scholar- £ ship, 1940-41 500 Interest on unpaid school grants: 4J per cent, on £14,300 (six months) 322 822 Ethnological—■ Recording-cost of Maori songs, &c. 24 Polynesian Society, 1939-40 300 324 Health : Tiarete Gerrard triplets (recoverable from Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board) 20 General— Taranaki Trust Board : Expenses of meeting at Waitara (outstanding) 25 Half-salarv, Princess Te Puea Herangi 104 129 1,295 ] 687 Balance Grants to be considered 329 £2,016 £2,016 OPERATIONS. (a) Education. —The financial assistance provided under this heading comprised the payment of £965 to the authorities of St. Stephen's, St. Peter's, and Turakina Schools, being interest at 4| per cent, on unpaid grants for the period Ist October, 1937, to 31st March, 1939. The interest due for the year 1939-40 was charged against that year's income. The question of liquidating these outstanding commitments, which was traversed extensively in the annual report for the previous year, is to be considered at the forthcoming meeting of the Board. The usual grant of £500 to the Education Department for assistance towards the cost of Maori Fi •ee Place Scholarships was not made due to the adjournment of the proposed meeting of the Board, but the scholarships were not affected, the Education Department's vote having to stand the extra burden. Several minor applications for particular assistance were referred to the Education Department for consideration. (b) Health.—A payment of £215 was made to the Department of Health in respect of the motor-car running-expenses of a district nurse at Tikitiki and the salary of the district nurse at Te Araroa for ' the period Ist October, 1938, to 30th June, 1939, but the Board has decided in future to discontinue these grants as it considered that such expenditure is a national responsibility and should be borne wholly by the State. (c) Ethnological.—The only assistance provided under this caption was to the Polynesian Society, a grant of £250 being made. (d) Arts and Crafts. —In addition to the grants from the Carnegie Corporation shown later in this report, the following payments were made : — Te Kaha Carved Meeting-house (includes £400 received in the same year for £ such a purpose from the Waiariki District Maori Land Board) 406 Waitangi Carved Meeting-house 486 Sundry expenses for Native meetings 10 £902 The issue of timber, the cost of which is recoverable, made during the year was as follows 378 superficial feet to Maori Court, Centennial Exhibition. (e) General. —The usual annual grant of £104 was made to the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, being half the salary paid to Princess Te Puea Herangi for the year ended 31st March, 1939. Assistance was given by the Board to the Centennial celebrations, particularly at the Maori Court of the Centennial Exhibition, by the loan of its paraphernalia and by the purchase of piupiu.

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CARNEGIE CORPORATION FUND. The grants during the period under review comprised : — £ Whangara Carved Meeting-house, Te Araroa 236 Waitangi Carved Meeting-house, Bay of Islands 250 £486 As will be observed from the attached schedule of receipts and payments and programme of work of this fund, the balance of the Carnegie Corporation grant at 31st March, 1940, totalled £342, of which £300 has been reserved for a programme for the revival of the pure Maori art of cloak-weaving, &c. In a recent report to the Carnegie Corporation of New York the Board expresses its deep appreciation of the money made available by the Trustees in the direction of enabling the revival and perpetuation of the Maori arts and crafts, in particular reference to " Whakairo," or wood-carving, more or less specialized in connection with carved runanga, or meeting-houses the making of decorative interior wall panels, or " tukutuku " , the painting of rafters and house battens in characteristic scroll-patterns, or " Kowhaiwhai " and the interior lining of roofs and sections of walls with toetoe reeds, or kakaho. Supplementing the moneys raised by the Maoris themselves and/or granted from Maori trust funds, including this Board, the tangible results of such financial assistance are to be seen in the beautiful carved meeting-houses now dotted over the North Island, truly perpetuating this form of Maori art. The Board again expresses its appreciation and thanks to Sir Apirana Ngata for his personal and untiring efforts in the direction of the revival and perpetuation of Maori art. GENERAL. (а) Assets unaccounted. —As will be observed from the annual accounts as at 31st March, 1940, there were assets amounting to £148 4s. lid., unaccounted for at a physical stocktaking conducted. Comprised in this figure are stocks of publications, £46 12s. 3d. , library books, £62 9s. sd. , miscellaneous paraphernalia of £39 3s. 3d. Various avenues are being explored to discover or account for them, and already assets totalling £104 2s. sd. have been located. A complete list of these assets has been included on the agenda paper for the forthcoming meeting of the Board. (б) Future Administration.- With the death of the late Secretary the time is opportune to effect a change in the administration of the Board, as far as the secretarial duties are concerned, in order to facilitate a more co-ordinated functioning of the Board. The Chairman and Native Minister has directed that the administration be fully undertaken by the Native Department, in which connection the urgent need for strict economy of administration and elimination of unnecessary or duplicate work, consistent with efficiency, consequent upon the war, is a further factor in support of the suggested change. GRANT FROM CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK OF $12,500. Administration showing Receipts and Payments and Programmes. I)r Cr £ s. d. 1933 By grant (first instalment) ' > 189 4 0 1 1934 By grant (second instalment) 727 8 0 1936 By grant (third instalment) 494 0 9 1936 By grant (fourth instalment) 378 11 0 1937 By grant (fifth instalment) • 246 17 5 » 3,036 1 2 I. Waitanqi Memorial Carved Meeting-house, Bay of Islands :— £ s. d. £ s. d. 1934 Wages of Maori carvers 300 0 0 1937 Erection of temporary workshops at Auckland Museum for use by carvers 53 16 2 1939 Wages on carvings, tukutuku panels, and kakaho work 250 0 0 603 16 2 Programme — («) Carvings (4 experts, 9 students). (b) Kakaho roof-lining (6 experts, 2 students). (c) Kowhaiwhai work (2 experts, 4 students). (d) Tukutuku work (2 male and 4 female -experts, 2 students). Carried forward £603 16 2 £3,036 1 2

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GRANT FROM CARNEGItf CORPORATION OK NEW YORK OF $12,500—continued. Administration showing Receipts and Payments and Pbogbammes—continued. Dr Or. £ s. <1. £ s. d. Brought forward 603 16 2 3,036 1 2 11. Waitara Carved Meeting-house, Taranaki : — £ s. d. Wages on carvings and interior decoration arts, &c. 0 0 550 0 0 Programme — 14 carvers and 24 tukutuku and interior decorative workers. 111. Carroll Memorial Carved Meeting-house, Wairoa 1937 Wages (carvers and tukutuku workers) .. 500 0 0 Programme — (a) Kakaho roof-lining 4 men, 8 women). (b) Carvings (2 experts, 4 students). (c) Kowliaiwhai (painting scrolls), (2 students). IV Putiki Maori Carved Church, Whanganui: — 1937 Wages (carving, interior work, &c.) 250 0 0 Programme— (a) Carvings (2 students). (b) Taniko work for pulpit panels 4 women). (c) Kowhaiwliai (1 student). (d) Floor-mats 4 women). V Hinetapora Carved Hall, Mangahanea, Ruatoria :— £ s. d. 1937 Wages (carvings, interior work, &e.) 46 17 6 Fare (carver, Rotorua-Ruatoria) 3 2 6 50 0 0 Programme (Reconditioning) — (a) Carvings (2 experts, 2 students). (b) Kowliaiwhai (2 students). (c) Kakaho roof-lining (1 expert, 1 student). (d) Tukutuku work (2 experts trained in connection with Waitara and Wairoa Houses —4 young men, 16 young women). VI. Rongomaitapui Carved Dining-hall, Te Araroa : — £ s. d. 1937 Wages on interior decoration work 75 0 0 1939 Wages on interior decoration work .. 25 0 0 100 0 0 VII. Hinerupe Carved Meeting-house, Te Araroa: — 1939 Wages (tukutuku work) . . 25 0 0 Programme (Rongomaitapui and Hinerupe) — (a) Kowliaiwhai (2 students). (b) Tukutuku workers (3 women, 20 female learners). (c) Kakaho lining (I expert, 1 student). VIII. Porourangi Carved Meeting-house, Waiomatitini: — 1937 Wages (workers on interior decoration and art work) .. 250 0 0 Programme — (a) Tukutuku (3 women, 20 female learners , training young people in selection, preparation, and dyeing of kie kie (flax)). (b) Construction 4 men engaged in painting wood laths, putting same and kakaho together and in frames ready for tukutuku workers). (c) Kakaho roof-lining (1 expert, 16 men, 20 women and girls , same as on tukutuku work). (a!) Kowliaiwhai, renovations of these rafter patterns (3 students under a qualified signwriter). (e) Plaiting floor-mats (6 women). Carried forward .£2,328 16 2 £3,036 1 2

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GRANT FROM CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK OF $12,500—continued. Administration showing Receipts and Payments and Pkourammes—continued. Dr Or £ s. d. £ s. d. Brought forward 2,328 16 2 3,036 1 2 IX. Te Vhi Carved Hall, Wairoa • — 1939 Wages (light carvings, kowhaiwhai work, kakaho panelling, and tukutuku) 100 0 0 Programme — (a) Kakaho (4 men, 8 women). (b) Carvings (2 experts, 4 students). (c) Kowhaiwhai (2 students). X. Whangara Carved Meeting-house :— £ s. d. 1937 Fares (carving students) 14 0 0 1937 Fares (carving students) 15 0 0 1939 Wages , 236 0 0 265 0 0 Programme — (a) Carvings (2 experts, 4 students). (b) Kakaho (4 men, 8 women (approx.) ). (c) Kowhaiwhai (2 students (approx.) ). Balance, 31st March, 1940 342 5 0 £3,036 1 2 £3,036 1 2 £ s. d. Balance, Ist April, 1940 . 342 5 0 Commitment. £ s. d. XI. Programme for Revival Maori Cloak-weaving, &c.: — 300 0 0 On 30th October, 1936, the Board resolved : " That the sum of £300 be paid out of the Carnegie grant as and when required to defray all necessary expenses incurred in connection with the proposed resuscitation of the art of Maori cloak-weaving and tuition and instruction of Maori adult students in such art." This grant has not yet been expended Owing to the difficulty in securing a hall in a Native settlement near the homes of Native experts in cloak-weaving, &c., and adjacent to material necessary for such weaving so that the students may be taught the art of selection, preparation, and colouring of the material required. Balance 42 5 0 £342 5 0 £342 5 0

Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, not given : printing (405 copies), £8 103,

Authority: E. V Paul, Government Printer, Wellington.—1940.

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