NATIVE LAND COMMISSION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 195, 12 May 1908, Page 9

NATIVE LAND COMMISSION.

• STATEMENT HY §IR J{. ST.OUT. (BY TF-LliCKArn—rßKßS'i ASSOCIATION ' " '■, : A ocli.lan)3 M r lT/i The . Chief" Justice . chairmanof tho > Native Lands .Commission, vJucli had -recently been sitting in arrived in; Auckland oir Sunday night: " In, the course of ah interyiofe Robert said.that tho bo quite willing to set; °afetd6'; IcohisidbrVtljlo areas for, sale, to keep .up their preseVt'^euJliyAtion " of tho Natives," Mi<> .went on? 1 ' arc exceedingly industrious. ,- Gn" bno -block llitn 1 had 400 milking cows, ,and..arc_taking largo quantities of milk to tho biittor factories. They are also raisins oats..and rmaize.-, and' some of them a little, If could gather, 'their farmii'igVis., not, sb .-goodas. that .of. sonw Europeans,'; hub; from -what I learnt; the district lacks farming .-enterpriso in some.respects. , ; '.;Tlia Maoris s'eoined anxious to got good titles to the. lnud/ 'so that they might improve, their holdings, and, displayed pvory willingness fojcoVoper'atb with'" the efforts of the Comiiii&jioh •%. settlo' 'tlxr Native land difficulty. Sir Robert Stout leaves Auckland :to-hior-' row for Wellington, on business'cbiincrtcd with tho Commission. ''"After a' brief "'stay in the capital, tho Commission •■viH J deaMvitn land in tlio Rotorua, Waikato, Thames, and v surrounding districts.