NATIVE LANDS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5804, 8 May 1912, Page 6

NATIVE LANDS.

Mr A. .Jackson, .secretary oi Uvo ■ \\l;a,.citan.' Agi icullurai and "Pas::oral Association, Tanea'-Ua. ha.-j f.jrwurdeJ to the Tauranga County Council, a copy of a letter Kent to the Native Minister, \\ eli-iigtcn, oa lh.> .subject of unoccupied > a live lands; an I rccjuestcd the Council to write to the .v nisi: r : i;,ipo. t-iag tu-.- j objtcts of the letter, "i he couit.iuiu-t-.ai'i. n to the Minister, whi»:n \-\iread at the meeting of lh.- Couneh yesterday, is as utv.ler : —-"My Association re.siA-etfi.ily uestri.s to briny under your notice iho threat an«i urgent need existing m tats district and in the whole oi the Hay j ot plenty for a vigorous Nmiw Uiiid ' settliintnt policy, 'l here are hundre.ls of thousands of acres ,f K!!eNnti\e land bch-iiid the pre.s^nl settli.-'.i area on the Waimana and \Vh:\viUuv> rivers, good country that woul.i b/e readily taken up what opent-d for selection, and it is st!'jii:;!y ii.--;.<\i that every eli'orl be maJe to bring this land into the market a' oau-. thus lulping to keei> some oi om land-seekers i:i the Poiul i\ on. T!i«.re nre, I think, somv 7v) f «J».)0 or S<»,000 acres already purchase: by the '>o-viernme-nt in the Frew ere. lountry. This it is suggested .'houl-ri be t>j-»-ened up without d-.-J.ay." Cr. Stewart propose L l-'! hai the request of the Assjciuljcn I>■ supported by the Couii-.i; on condition I that* the land is 'U-alt \wth' under I the optional purchase clauses o;' the | Land Act. —Cr. (.'riflin M-onidec!.

Cr. (»ray moved- am auit-nuincnt — That the recjiuest be supported without rcforenco to 1 ho- system ur.'icr which the lands iruy be opened.— Cr. Matthews seconded.

Cr. Stewart's motion was carried