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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10121, 31 October 1917, Page 5

Be sure you bring your show-time; guest to see our store—complete their visit by showing them what a business has grown up in this town in 13 years! Feel free to walk over our premises—see the tea roots, the unequalled men’s department, our thousandpound showroom carpet, our electric light installation, our pneumatic cash railway, our 14 wonderful windows. Colhnson. and Cunniughamo, Ltd., Broadway. Adit. j The Maori claim to ownership of the lakes , of New Zealand has often been raised, but l never definitely settled. When the late R. J. Seddon wa s Native Minister, the Rotorua Maoris once waited upon him, and petitioned to be allowed to charge toll for tourists crossing the lakes. Mr Scddon’s reply was a typical one. Ho reminded the Maoris that when he asked _ them to allow their land to be taxed to raise money for reading it, they replied that God had made all the roads they needed in the lakes atuj rivers. “If that is your view,” added Mr Seddon, “what right have you to charge toll for roads made by God?” Now the general question of ownership of the takes is to he decided by a full bench of the Judges of the Native Lipid, Court in Wei-1 jington next JanUary. I