NATIVE WASHING-UP BILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 2 September 1926, Page 7

NATIVE WASHING-UP BILL.

BATES ON MAORI LANDS, T TAUPO FISHING MATTERS. \ i 3 (By Telegraph.—Parliameetary Reporter.) 5 WELLINGTON, this day. a Among the general clauses in the Native Land Washing-up Bill is one cmi powering the Maori Land Board to make i advances lor agricultural and pastoral purposes, or for the improvement and p settlement of any native land vested in •. j the board and owned by more than tea t natives in common. The Native Land Board is also emn. powered in cases of default in payt ment of rates on native land other than i- native freehold to appoint a receiver with a power to mortgage the area and pay, outstanding or current rates. c A lengthy clause gives effect to the i, agreement with the Taupo natives, and a declares the bed of Lake Taupo vested in t the Crown, the natives having the right to fish for their own purposes. A chain. 3 ' margin around the lake is to be reserved 1 ' for the public as a right-of-way. The 1 Governor-General may reserve to holders lof special licenses a right-of-way over & 5 strip of land not exceeding one chain in width along the banks of rivers or streams vested in the Crown, the Crown to have the exclusvie right to let for camping any of the land so reserved, and to be authorised to lay out camp sites for anglers.