THE MAORI RACE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2654, 9 November 1909, Page 2

THE MAORI RACE.

SUCCESSFUL SANITARY REFORM.. According to Dr Pomare, Native Health Officer, the work of sanitary reform amongst the Maoris was commenced with a great deal of trepidation. The result of the work has, nowever, proved satisfactory; in. fact far beyond expectations. ’ Owing to the sanitary adjustments, the Maori is 100 per cent, better off than he was nine years ago. Dr Pomare continues: —“Everywhere our young men are clamoring to get on. the land, and when once one or two are successful many try to emulate their example. We regret that owing to stormy weather, the ship of 'State has to unburden itself by the unloading of our Department; but though my people from all parts are “pouri” for this step, they cannot help being grateful for the great, great good which has been done. We can always look back upon, these years with pride; and throughout the Dominion, from the far-away Rerenga Wairua to Stewart Island, from the fastnesses of the Urewera to the Hawke’s Bay plains, the words are living, and the lives of men have been saved and changed. Some have been shifted from their low, damp situations

to the higher lands. - Hundreds of,-in-santary houses have been destroyed without a (penny compensation being asked for. New houses have been erected. In some districts "it would bo be quite difficult to find a Maori whai'o of the old stamp. They have all gone in the .general awakening that lias taken place.”