Hunn Report published

This report on the Department of Maori Affairs - The Hunn Report, named for its author Jack Hunn -  examined the social and economic circumstances of the Māori people. It analysed three specific trends for which Hunn said future policy should account: the ‘explosive growth’ of the Māori population, a looming ‘employment problem’ and the inevitability of urbanisation. The report was comprehensive, up-to-date and, significantly, provided the first official public explanation of integration and how it would shape Maori Affairs’ policies and services. The Hunn Report would influence Māori policy well into the 1970s and became the single most important mid-twentieth-century document on Māori relations with the state. The report worked through the subjects of population, land settlement, land titles, housing, education, employment, health, legal differentiation and crime, and described some worrying social and economic inequalities between Māori and Pākehā.^[i]

The emphasis on a policy of integration gave support to calls for the abolition of separate treatment and government provision for Māori.