31 Mai 1939 Jahr - Employment and Housing of Maori Conference

Beschreibung:

In 1939, Paddy Webb, Minister of Labour, called a conference entitled
"Employment and Housing of Maori", of MPs and officials. Webb, as were
others, was becoming aware of the slow shift of Maori to the towns and the
growing need for labour as a result of growth in the manufacturing industry.
There was an ambivalence, however, about the presence of an urban Maori
population and considerable emphasis was still placed in the conference on
rural housing.
At the Conference, Ngata looked for changes to the Native Housing Act - such
as the Board of Maori Affairs buying up dwellings and sites for dwellings and
leasing them to Maori. This would solve the need for security. Others such
as E Tirikatene, the MP for Southern Maori objected in principle to the scheme
on the grounds that what was required for Maori was fundamentally unfair.
"Pakehas could go into the state houses being built throughout New Zealand
but the Maori could get no houses unless he had security."
The MP for Northern Maori, P K Paikea argued for a specific Native Housing
Department similar to the Housing Construction Department. This, he felt,
would avoid the messy system of construction cobbled together between the
Public Works Department, the Native Department and the various
unemployment schemes. This was rejected and it was not until the 1950s that
the Maori Affairs Department was able to deliver an efficient construction
division. In effect, Paikea was looking for a Maori state housing programme -
presumably one that could deliver to rural as well as urban Maori.

Source: https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_94029549/Wai%2060%2C%20A002.pdf

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