OBSOLETE NATIVE LEGISLATION.
■;'' Sir/f-Fouf: years" ago :I:;had-.an.;applica-tion'signed :by: the"'Native: owners '.in >! a Native area;, to ..lease' their'; land: to-me. : : lam ■a: farmer.;trained ;in Scotland;■ to farm>. land'as.no:other people:;on>.earth;: can: farm it.-.I gbtadeedrauly signed, sealed,; "slamped,,ietc., l .by-;the:a"ut:ho'rities paid by -us' to' do" such'^vb'rk' try?bvyears- ago. ;■; Now, : ; after ;'sJße'nding''about':il(K!Oj;: besides own labour,' '.Biiilding ia ?'steading,^- :etc., and making■ % the above';lease> my ;hbme, . l am informed ..that' one of'the.; owners - was of iagb':when.'the',deed;was : Bighed,:andhe: : should -have sighed-, instead of' his ; 'grandmother ;or i trustee/-.'; This:■ boy:.' ■-has; been prpyed'.by'all who"; lmew:-him: not :to? r have: been" off age:'when, the. deed''was: 'signed. Such foolish-harassing'"of the backbono/bf: this -Dominion;by obsolete: legislation will: ; not ''encourage -settlement by --my .-friends frae-hamej;arid ; l-am;how sorry.l.did not-settle'.inlCahada,;.where''the.-.land:is free. : to; Uiose: who. emigrate'.there,-and where,. ■if '.all v thei.inhabitants./of.:;New,-.Zealand "went 'into, one of the:local;centres/ they: :would.bb'.awiommodated.Vv.'What.is"at the": bottom.' of "■' this" rotten-"-land 5 --, legislation? ; ,Why;'do'the'.-farmers:,-of:'.New .{Zealand., calmly .'allow; suchiinjustices?-; 'They'-.Srait' a wee. thing more ■ of Canadian; spirit;, ;The;farmers::. ; .rae' Ca'nada'.'i'; '"ffbo 1 :rules: !New{Zealand?^:am;'':etc.;: : ., :.;:::::■ :
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 13
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162OBSOLETE NATIVE LEGISLATION. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 13
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