FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15500, 6 January 1914, Page 4

FIFTY YEARS AGO

» I THE LAND QUESTION % ''.■"■- Blf MORE POLICE WANTED $& — m (From the HERALD of JawSry 6 *§$& In his Financial Statement made in'djm Provincial Council, Mr. Daldy, the ?T vincial Treasurer, has very happily*£s pressed the general feeling of the £, when he says that the time has ,]§§ arrived when the present land regday|l| should be suspended, of course due nolll having been given to the United KiJ3! that such a course would be Adopted afiH a certain date. The necessity, if an _ /ff existed, for giving away the public esfiS of the province, has certainly be*n>>*?£ moved by the action taken by the General - 1 Government in themselves intrcdudai large body of the very best of txma"fi!|« settlers, and the power of continuing $M old system has also been taken away K' I the New Zealand Settlements Act, wjjJl forfeits the land of the Maoris * 3 thfGeneral Government, and leaves the thus acquired to their disposal. In „ yjjpj cases it may perhaps be deemed inadvij.. able or rnneoessary to confiscate nati TS land, but of the comparatively few bloeffi thus left, and of the 100 acres sulotted.%l each male ad? It of the native race, it caaf not be presumed that much, if any, 1 ; be likely to fail into the hands c? VjjM vincial Government If tho Maori" selfj his 100 acres, it will be first and direct to the European settler. The surplus knll confiscated by the General Govemmwijl will be administered by the Governing! and are indeed liable to the first clan*-" and that no inconsiderable ont, v the cori* 0' the war and settlement of aiuitM® volunteers. The late 40-acre system hall been, considering the vast expense it hso entailed in wafted surveys, etc., moress less a failure, far one 40-aere section whicil has been bona fide settled upon, 10 hv*£ been deserted, and, their quasi owner/? having leftf the province, been backed m':, as useless. , m The Auckland Police Force.We a&f giad to perceive that our contemporary! the Southern Cross, in its issue of vestal day, has followed in the same line of arnif! marts used by ourselves in the Hebalcl' of the previous Friday, in advocating 111 desirability of enlarging the number of tin' Auckland police, and also of increasing Sp pay of the members of the present We trust that this really iuportan qnmi tion will receive due consideration, afc tsaf present time, at the hands of the aim vincial Council, which has £1000 to satstoi and which coidd appropriate all, or part', of the money, to no more useful' puhHljl pi-rpose. Wm