NATIVE LAND COMMISSION.
::• chief ; judge : jackson palmer' ■.';;;'.• appointed. , , : : cbNSOLmATION/OP/LAWSi V j; .There, have lately,' been niany inquiries as to the of, the work of the Native liand-Commission, and' the;position-created .JJ?''"J 1 ? regard by the'appointment-of Mr. A. ■i - ,v.S*™i';?i?'s-.of the commissioners.: : as a Übinet Minister, of 'the Crowh: The matter ■is now,;.however,; virtually, sottled..-.Cabinet a? clt i e te s { er T day . t0 •authorise .Sir: : Robert btoutj(Cb.ief Justice) and Mr. Jackson Palmer (Chief Judge.of ..the Native Land Court) to be.appomted as ; a commission for the purcompleting-. and ATfe? N ,^ ive ' : Land < Settlement Ack;;ig.o7.:, : ;.Tlns is = the.,.work which was begun .and carried-: far -towards completion by Sir Eobert ;Stout and Mr. Ngata.T ""■- - : : The commissioners will also" bo "directed" to compete 'the consolidation' of • the ' Native land_ laws of, the! Dominion:■ This work came within ■ the, order -of reference -. of: the . late btatutes:.Revision. - Commission,: but' that e ' ad ™ing : that it should be donestated "that it was .too great: to rbe undertaken -at:th'o.-time.,; The Chief: Justice, however, was recently 'reported as saying that he 1 had begun the'task s ;and expected .to ; fmish ; it by; the. beginning: of March."-. 1 .: -.- .■-.-: -
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 January 1909, Page 5
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188NATIVE LAND COMMISSION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 411, 21 January 1909, Page 5
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