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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2431, 19 May 1893, Page 2

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, MB McGUIBE BEFORE HIS CON. STITUENTS. - 1 (FKOM ODB OWN COBBKSPOKDXMY.) Mr McGuire met about 84 persons in i the schoolroom on tbe 12tb. Mr. Oh W. , Gane was voted to the chair, Mr McGuire went through much the same as at oibef places, as reported. He thanked tha pnei 1 for the fall reports they had reprnittd from Hansard so that peopl* could wateti ao&%- > see what ho was doing. "'vp^ 1 r questions. _' : r^ j In answer to Mr W. Pnntnlnw ItOfaoi *■- has to insure their buildings in the^Smi of the Public Trustee. He had interviewed 1 the late Premier on the snbjeo^ bat absolutely disagreed with it. To Mr John McGregor— Tha ExseotitJ have some jurisdiction over the Foblii Trustee. He had tried to get tb* lam* By stem of dealing with leasing native lands as is in vogoe with the Crown lands. If Mr Ballaoce and he bad insisted on having I Bach inserted in the W.C.S.B. Act it . would have been lost. It was a mistake not to have some provision made -ty s provide fonds oat of leaseholders' rent fef 7 roads. He wonld take this bill as an in* sialment. . . . 3 Mr McGregor treat tally into the matter a of the absurdity of this leasing system; also the absurdity of appointing a eOffl* 9 mission agent in Wangaoui as valuator* , To Mr Gane— He wonld try to get a a Bhort bill passed next session providing f for one-third of the rents derivable front,9 native lands leased for 15 tears befog handed back to the local bodies for toad - * making to benefit those' lands. I To Mr McGregor— The Dairy Act is not i complete — aa imperial gallon of -milk . should be a uniform weight. Wfll es* t deavour to get such done— a statute gallon. Mr McGregor instanced that in various parts a gallon was 10}, 10},"10| t 1 and bere lllbe. » Mr Gane brought forward the .question i of ;, amending tbe Bating Act so m to 9 exempt improvements, only giving local } bodies the power to levy taxes on tbf prairie value; also for tbe Government tb r give a grant of money to repair bridges * whioh had been built by them on defective foundations; also tbe bad system of f leasing native lands after tbe experience * in tbe past; also education matter to divide diatriots into wards; also native J land should be set aside in saffleient 3 quantity to pay the cost of native schooler *o. ; also tba absurdity of appointing m*n as assessors and valuators, having n9 practical knowledge of tbis district. Mr McGregor proposed a vote of tbankf to Mr McGm're .for his able address and tbe satisfactory way he answered tbe numerous questions, aud confidence in , him for tbe fatnre. Carried unanimously. Mr MeGmre proposed a vote of tbankf J to the ohair. I Carried with acclamation.