TAUMARUNUI LAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15848, 19 February 1915, Page 4

TAUMARUNUI LAND.

INTERESTS OF THE NATIVES. ATTEMPT TO " PUB TEASE. fBT TELEGRAPH.OWN CORBESKOTKNT.] , Tattmarttnui, Thursday. A committee appointed to try to arrange if for the Government purchase of the na- r §S tive township of Tamnarunui, sent a ■ deputation to Wellington recently. The ''f-; project was favourably received there, and iffit is stated that if the local Maoris sent in a petition expressing a desire to sell, the "SsH Government would send valuers to meet.the native owners and discuss the terms of sale. The price would probably b#-'. the native interest in the Government 3 valuation—about £90,000. j«Sj| A conference held with the natives thefefc: other day proved abortive, hostility to th« |ff|f scheme being shown by all the Mabrsfl|s who spoke, and thess were many. >sl§|§j sore point with them is the possible dese- i! cration of their cemeteries. Hinaki complained that a road • h4d;|Ebeen surveyed over the grave of -his daughter. I

Another Maori said it was proposed to take up the bones of his ancestor from s their present resting place and deposit them elsewhere. *V\U Thty urged that the land courts should 3 \ delimit and protect the sacred places, and?,"' separate the pakeha part of the township V. from the kainga, or purely native per- -i * tion. Then the project of the sale might "3s be considered. fSSSf