LANDLESS NATIVES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 127, 21 February 1908, Page 7

LANDLESS NATIVES.

i . »•' -•••' ■ : . "--Ay. ' ■ . AREAS SET APART. •' .-'.Largo''reservations' of land; both- in ,tho ' ■ -IXortli and South. Islands for; occupation' by, Natives/ are notified in.last night s Gazettes The South Island Maoris havo for; years 1 considorod; that they .were; under an injustioo i in respect to tlieir lands, and from the notice . ' which appeal's in t-he'.Uassptto ,it transpires ; ; ■ ,'that ,practical, is to' bo done to .. ' moot, their .claims; ~ Tho. proclamation states , ' that whereas, .imdor tho South, Island Landloss ; Natives Act, 1906, it ia.cnactal .that tho\. '' Governor, may - from time to-'timo declare that any Crown hind'shall bo sot aside temporarily .' for-tho.purpose of providing land for, land-:' : .loss, Natives, in tho South .Island;; tho follow,jpg temporary, reservations, for their "borieiit •.> , aro now made : • Areas of 206 acros,. 349 acres, 297' acres, i ~382; and 2981 acros in tho Bruco Bay { ..Survey'District; AVestland.' ■. ; area of 10. acres in the Toarohoa Siir- " 'Vcy'District; Westland. i; '. v An area of 100 acres in ' tho Karangarua . '• Survey District, Westland. n:.Two areas, each'of.so; acres, in tho Abbey', .. Jtooks.Surye.v.District, Westland. i V An # aroiT'ofi'S)'.aires in Gillespie's Survey . District. ' , ■■ ■ '_ Tho last tlirco areas, arb ialready known as . Nativo reserves. .../" - . ,r./J[tosdrvations..;ofr:land for 'Maori uso,ahd occupation in ' tho North Island havo been mado in accordanco with tho recommendations of'tho Native Lands Commission. They comprise sections 1 to 55 ill the Mohaka and Waihua Suryyy, I DistricJ,,Mvith a total area of '' 21,613 acros.Y'iQl.sectibiiii 'of the Tutaelcuri ' .Block, Tara^nafaiija':'Survby District, with an area of *10j7GG"acros'; fiyo sections in the Tutuqtokaha' Block, ;Opoiti Survey District, totalling 3412;acrcs ; and 30 . sections in' tho Nuhak'a Bloc!;,- Niihalca and Nubaka North ' Survey Districts, aggregating 12,767 acres. Tho total North Island reservation is thus, •;roughly, 48;5i57 acres. ■