Ngata worked hard to foster Māori scholarship and education and preserve traditional arts and culture.
He convinced the government to establish a Board of Maori Ethnological Research (1923), a Maori Purposes Fund Control Board (1924) and a School of Maori Arts and Crafts in Rotorua (1927).
The Reform government also took the first, tentative steps towards settling longstanding Māori grievances.
Agreements with Te Arawa in 1922 and Ngāti Tūwharetoa in 1926 recognised their respective rights over the Rotorua lakes and Lake Taupō, and led to the establishment of trust boards with some government funding.
Commissions of inquiry which examined Ngāi Tahu grievances (1920–21) and the Waikato and Taranaki confiscations (1926–27) recommended that modest compensation be paid.
Don’t be so mean…be kind our lovely Leader wants us to be.
Independent News well what rubbish…AND we have to put up with sleazy sleepy JOE?
Wait and see what socialism is all about in the days to follow…
You have your opinion so I can have mine…
“BE KIND”…
At least he started no more wars, instead he brokered peace deals between Isreal and Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia and the UAE. I really hope Biden and/or Harris continues that approach instead of invading other countries.