Mr. Mackay, the Native Commissioner, is now a partner with the Maoris at the Thames, trading under the firm of Taipara, Mackay & Co. “The whole of their business” says a correspondent of the Daily Times, ‘‘ is the collection of rents and miners’ rights, the profits being about £30,000 per annum, and that too for land almost valueless two years back. Not a shilling of this larafe sum is returned to the Provincial Government for roads, wardens, goldfields management, , a great hardship on the inhabitants, as roads are very much required.”
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Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 207, 11 December 1869, Page 4
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