Only Computer Could Help
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, Oct. 1.
It took the Treasury’s computer to help sort out one of the intricate land-holding problems bequeathed by the Maori Wars. Until last year, 5000 Maoris had some 30,000 separate interests in the rent paid on the 72,000 acres of the west coast settlements in South Taranaki. The massive job of amalgamating these separate and varying interests in the 212 different blocks of land into 5000 shareholdings was a task for the Treasury computer. The computer may be used again by the Maori Affairs Department for the even more complex job of amalgamating interests in the Wanganui vested lands.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30561, 2 October 1964, Page 3
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