TIMBER ON NATIVE LAND.
REPORT TO PARLIAMENT. [BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Wednesday. : ; A report of the Native Land Commission, reviewing an agreement between persons of the Ngatituwharetoa tribe and. the Tongariro Timber Company, was presented to Parliament to-day. The agreement involves 134,500 acres of land, 82,000 acres of which have milling timber growing thereon. The company has selected an area of 40,160 acres, which it is estimated contains 35,000 ft per acre, and which can be profitably worked. Of the. residue area, only about 19,285 acres may be worked at a profit, provided always tha) the proposed railway is constructed through the land, and that the demand for timber increases. "Seeing the great advantages that will accrue both to the Maori owners and the Dominion," says the report, " the Government' and Parliament should, in our opinion, lend their beneficent aid to the speedy execution of the agreement."-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13875, 8 October 1908, Page 6
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147TIMBER ON NATIVE LAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13875, 8 October 1908, Page 6
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