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SETTLERS AND MINISTER Br Telegraph.—Press association. Te Awamutu, February 24. The Ngaroma Settlement, 35 miles from Te Awamutu, was classed as a cattle sick area. Last week a mass meeting at Auckland resolved that, tlie Government’s treatment of tlie settlers amounted to a scandal, and the Auckland Farmers’ Union also strongly criticised the Government. The Minister of Lands (the Hon. A. D. McLeod) challenged the organisers of these meetings to meet him on the public platform at Te Awamutu. The Town Hall was crowded last night. Mr. Hall Skelton, for the mass meeting organisers, telegraphed that the short notice precluded his attendance, but he offered to meet the Minister at Auckland. Mr. Robertson, for the Farmers’ Union, attended, and delivered a short address.
Mr. McLeod traversed the history of the settlement, and stated definitely that tlie Government would not entertain any idea of compensation for bush sick areas, but settlers who were prepared to play the game were advised to forfeit their sections to the Crown, when justice would be clone them in a readjustment of valuations • when sections were reallotted to them. He detailed remissions already made.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 126, 25 February 1928, Page 8
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