Kuku Lands Not to Be Taken
Assurance Given to Deputation ANNOUNCEMENT RECEIVED WITH applause Ter Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 10. An assurance that there would be no interference with the lands of the Kuku settlers and that none of their farms would be taken from them by the Crown was given by the Prime Minister in reply to a deputation of Kuku settlers and their wives to day.
There is a proclamation over theso lands and it was assumed that they were to be used for the settlement of the market gardeners dispossessed of their properties in tbe Hutt Valley. There were about thirty in the deputation, including several native settlers.
The Prime Minister ’s assurance was received by the deputation with applause.
The representations were also heard by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry), the Minister if Housing (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) and the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. Lee Martin).
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 161, 11 July 1939, Page 6
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