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.
How many campsite owners have 90k to invest in their business (few buy the look of the toilets and dated facilities in mots sites).
Ban the scroungers and businesses will benefit. Put the 90k into promoting the places where campers should be staying and keep them out from our rivers and spots of natural beauty that are wearing the damage these campers do – can’t afford a holiday don’t come on one.