Mr, W. F. Massey, Leader of the Opposition, / when s interviewed /in'.:.-, Christchurch with regard to native questions, said: "I am-satisfied that nothing but an absolutely clear title will do if native lands are to be taken up by European settlers. The system of dealing in, Maori lands in the past. has been very unsatisfactory. At present./ there are. nearly eight million acres of native' lands. Mitch of it is as good as Cheviot. North of Whangarei there is-one stretch of a million acres as good as the average, of the Canterbury Plains. There is not '.? a single settler on : it, and I don't know, when'"'.there' will be one. This, remember, is not an Auckland or North Island question. If wo could get this land on reasonable terms, and with a- secure; tenure, we could find room for any num,ber of settlers. ; : No questions " are more urgently: in need of • settlement than the native difficulty, the occupation of native - native lands, and the employment of native people." ' :-'.'-/.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 6
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