feb 6, 1944 - Department of Native Affairs Panure housing survey

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The DNA commissioned the newly appointed Chief Welfare Officer, Rangi Royal, to survey Māori housing in Panmure.His report noted:

They comprised tents, galvanised iron shacks, portions of stables and manure sheds, and dwellings of packing cases, rough timber and rubberoid. Overcrowding is prevalent and the sanitary arrangements most primitive… Cooking is done… mostly on open fires and in the majority of cases, they sleep, cook, store and eat food in the one room.

Royal estimated that 1,200 homes were needed to house the Māori families living in Auckland, with 500 required immediately

Source: Orange, C. (1977). A kind of equality: Labour and the Maori people 1935-1949 (Master’s thesis, University of Auckland).

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