SPEECH BY SIR JAMES CARROLL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1301, 2 December 1911, Page 8

SPEECH BY SIR JAMES CARROLL.

VO . • flSx TeiitriDh.-Proii'AJK>cl*tioii.r Gisborne, December 1. Sir James Carroll delivered, a political | address at His -Majesty's-: Theatre this evening.. The Mayor, Mr. W. Pettje, proBided, and about 1200 persons .were present. Sir James Carroll was enthusiastically received, and said lie was proud of the moment to be irosont to acknowledge tho groat honour conferred, on him it his unoppo6ed election. His Native lano.pblicy had been denounced. by' the Opposition, but he assured. them that m the members of the Opposition, who". were making the plank their principal one and were condemning the Government's policy, did not, '■ with one exception, understand the .Native land law; ' The one exception was' Mr. Hemes. Those who talked of individiialisation did not.know the difficulties in the way. Ho would say to-day that over 400,000 acres of. Native lands were under profitable occupation and paying taxes, and 3,000,000. left unallotted, but there were only • about 1,000.000 acres of waste Native land. ' Within three years, or less than foirr, the Native land settlement nnestion would' cco6e to' bo ■ a difficulty. Of the 3,000,000 acres' referred to, the greater proportion was unsnited for settlement. He-granted that'on land not yet. in profitable .use there was something to Bay, but they should'not forget that every year was bringing: in, land to occupation, Btfd'last• year'SlSiOOO acres Were bronght-into ;prpn£able.use, and he hoped'to put up a good rcoord'.next year. The Opposition would npt tell of these transactions because they did, not want the pnblio to mow 'the™ "Vaavreallj noNative knd question existent; ;,. ■;'■'?■ A rote of thanks was' carried. .-.' ME. NGATA Jf?E-rAECTED UN-''.'-." j. ."■.-•; ; ;: , opposed. ..•.;;/••:' ..- (Br T*ktnph.-PreM AinoelMlnU - ■' -: piiborne,'December 1. For the Eastern Maori- district, Mi ■■ A. T.Ngata'has beon elated. unopposed.