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.
Too late girl. They are on a mission to kill it all…
PLEASE Stop DOC from POISONING our BIRD’S And Wildlife!!!
The nasty piece of work on the left will be the new leader with Fat Boy co-leader. The whiner on the right couldn’t win a wet bag contest. Whoever it is this National Party are the destroyers of worlds (ours). Of course you realize that if ‘they’ gassed and burnt all the dole bludgers in NZ it would be a wonderful country, right?