UNPAID RATES.
MAORI LAND PROBLEM PROPOSALS AT INVESTIGATION LOCAL BODIES AS RECEIVERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIROA, this day. The Native Lands Rating Committee held it* first sitting here yesterday. Tlio Mayor, Mr. Harker, on behalf of the borough council, recommended that local authorities be automatically appointed receivers of all native land upon which rates are not paid, without the necessity of first obtaining the consent of the Minister of Native Affairs; that the receiver so appointed have the right to sell up eucli land, on consent of the local magistrate, who would be in a position to obtain the fullest information of the conditions prevailing. Mr. Harker also recommended natives have tlio rlglit to exchange small areas in a borough for areas in the county of equal value from • the usable point of view. The recommendation will be considered by the committee, whose decisions will be known later. This committee left for Gisborne, where its next sitting will be held.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 5
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