NATIVE LAND LAWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17845, 28 July 1921, Page 8

NATIVE LAND LAWS.

AMENDMENTS ADVOCATED.

TAXATION AND RATING. [BST XELEGKAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] WELLINCBON. Wednesday. A committee set up by the Dominion Conference of the Farmers' Union today proposed the following remit: " That the conference respectfully suggests, (1) that the present position of the native land laws is unsatisfactory, both in the. interests of natives and of the Dominion; (2) that natives should now be granted, as far as possible, the j same righto and privileges to deal with their land, as Europeans; (3) that all native lands should be 'subject .to the I' same land tax and country ratin« a£ '< > European iand,~ provided they have ! reasonably good road access; (4) that '' natives be granted the same facilities under all loan Acts as Europeans, so that they may be able to develop and road their lands; {5) that if, after natives are granted the privileges of Europeans, they fail to .bring their land into useful occupation, the Government*' should take power to acquire the same : under the Land for Settlement Act." Clause 2 -was objected to, and finally defeated, and the remit -was referred, back to the conimitiefc. ]