NATIVE TOWNSHIPS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 28, 1 August 1912, Page 4

NATIVE TOWNSHIPS

COMPULSORY ACQUISITION OF LEASES REMIT VETOED BY MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE. In native- townships, such as Taumarunui, Greytown, To Kuiti, and Wairoa, tho pakeha chafes under Maori ownership, and desires to get the freehold. A proposition in this direction was laid before the Municipal Conferences yesterday in the folio wiug remit: — ' "(1) That tho Government be asked to bring do\ui ..legislation giving borough councils tho power, if necessary, to municipalise any or all nativo leased laud, within tho boundary of tho borough, or (2) in the alternative, the Government to acquire the freehold of such land, tho present leaseholders to- have tho option of purchase thereof on equitable terms." "■What about the nativo?" asked the provident (Mr. D. M'Laron) when the remit was moved. Mr. B. R. Gardiner (Levin) maintained that thO 4 conference would be doing a mosc unjust thing if it allowed tho councils of such towns to go to the Government with its sanction to urge the case of the present leaseholders as ngainfet the rights of tho natives. Tho natives were tho owners, and why should tho conferenco Bu-y that they must sell? Why thould not tho natives got the benefit of their forethought ? , Mr. T. A. H. Field (Nolson) taid every tenth acre in Nelson was native land, and do trouble had been found with theße nativo leases. Mr. C. Cathie (Karori) said they should insist oil getting rate* from native lands in nil town districts. (Applause). The president said .ho could not support compulsory powers to acquiro native loasewt, Tho mover (Mr. Slatteryl explained that tho natives wanted to sen thoir town sections, which only brought them in small retu/nls, and with 1h« money go back to fatrh their holdings in tho baotf country. The motion, wa* loib by. 19 votes to C

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