UNPAID NATIVE RATES
AVAIROA SUGGESTIONS
LOCAL BODIES AND RECEIVEPS WAIROA, May IS. Tho Government Native Lands Rating Committee held its first sitting in Wairoa, on 'Wednesday. The Mayor, Mr 11. Flarker, on behalf of the borough Council, recommended that local authorities bo, automatically appointed (receivers of all Native land on which rates have not been paid, without the necessity of obtaining the consenlij of the Minister of Native. Affairs, and that the receiver so appointed have tlio right to sell up op consent of tlio local magistrate, why is in a position
■to obtain the fullest information' as to tlip conditions prevailing. Mr Harkor also rocommohded. that. Natives havo the right to exchange _ small* areas in boroughs for areas an the country of equal value from a saleable point of vieiw. ■ r J'ho recommendation will be considered by Hie cottimitteb,' whose decision Will: WWknown Later.■ ; ; Tho committee then loft foy 'Gisborno where the next sitting wMI bo I,cM ' II . ■ ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11948, 19 May 1933, Page 2
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