NATIVE LAND COMMISSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 45, 22 February 1908, Page 5

NATIVE LAND COMMISSION.

The members of the Native Land Commission (Sir Robert Stout and Mr. Ngata, M.P.) will leave for the King # Country on Monday, the next sitting being held at Otorohanga. Mr. Ngata is already partly on his way, having left Wellington for Palmerston North this morning. He will travel overland along .the Main Trunk railway route Thecommission opens at Otorohsnga on WedEesday, and will probably occupy a week or more in touring the King Country, and then go to Rotorua for a ten days' visit. Sittings will be hald at HelensTille, Dargaville, Whanearei, Kawakawa, Kaikohe, Russell, Whangaroa, and Mongonui. Next either Holdanga or the Coiomandel Peninsula will bo visited. Tho report on\the Waiapu enquiry is ready for presentation to the Governor, also that on the King Country native lands. The Wanganui leport should be re?dy in a few days, and that on th© Waimarama lands was presented a few days ago.

A large gathering of natives is anticipated in Wanganui for Monday next (24th February), when the inaugural meeting of the proposed Maori Association of New Zealand will be held. The objects of .the association are political and social, and as representatives of tho various tribes will be present from every part of \he Dominion the new body should exercise considerable influence on questions pertaining to the native race. Executive officers will be elected jat the meeting, and rules and regulations for the control of tho association will also be drawn up. The Dominion Bazaar will .be opened at Lower Kutt on Monday next. As will bo seen by advertisement in. another column tho programme is a varied and entertaining one. The bazaar is j:i aid of the Convent Infant School. The management of Wirth's Circus iiai secured a site on Adelaide-road, near the old tramway shed. A number of special novelties are included in the circus. It is notified in another column that idessrs. Anstis and Simpson will take over, as from Ist March next, ;he livery and bait stab!e3 at Lower Hutt, which have burn conducted for tho oast halfcentury by the Messrs. Cudbj. Messrs. An&lis and Simpson state that they intend to provide for the increasing demand ! for Incrl transport, carriage of goods, ami like facilities The sonioi partner has been for several years known as head' gardener of Bellovue. A service in memory cf the late Mrs. Mark Smith will bo held to-morrow nijrht in the Donald M'Lean-:.trect Primitive Methodist Church. Harvest thanksgiving services will be • held in the Vivian-Street Baptist Ohurch to-morrow The church has been appropriately decorated. The Roy. J. J. North Tyill preach special sermons, morning and evening. At the V.M.C.A. to-niprht tho usual devotional meeting will bo held. The r men's Biblo class will bs heki to-morrow r a t 4 p.m., and will bo followed by tho \_ stransters' tea. I- "Another health talk to ladies will bo % .men by Miss M'Call ia Ihe Viavi rooms I oa Friday afternooo.