ARAWA TRIBE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18516, 29 March 1922, Page 5

ARAWA TRIBE

agreement with the GOVERN MENT. OUTLINED BY SIR FRANCIS BELL. * (Pis Uhitks Pus* Assooiatioh.l WELLINGTON, March 28. Sir Francis Bell furnished the following' outline of the proposed agreement of claims of tier Arawa tribe with respect to the Rotorua district. The Crown admin , the Arawa rights to the ancient fishing and' burial reserves in all the lakes, ad the Arawas admit that the fee simple of tbe lakes is vested in the Crown. A special board on the lines of the Rotoiti Board, is to be appointed to control the surroundings of Green Lake. Rotokakahi and the island is to be one of the burial puOM. The Arawas are to have 40 instead of 20 licenses to fish for trout in too lakes at a nominal fee, no. trading in the indigenous fish of the lakes is to be, permitted. The civil list to be amended by adding £4OOO to the present £7OOO for Native purposes, and £6OOO ia to be paid annually to a board to be established for the purpose, for the benefit of the Arawa tribe and, k« various hapus, the money to bo used for .the benefit of the whple tribe, and not for mdiyidualjK ; The board may raise money, for capital expenditure and interest and sinking fuPQj ts bo secured out of the annual proviikwo ; fiom the Consolidated Fund, the first pay-c: ment from the Consolidated Pond to he , made not earlier than six months after the ? end of the session of 1923. The Act ia to • be amended during 1922. For expenditure already incurred in. litigation and , othbr claims, payment- is limited to £2OOO, which , it is proposed that the Crown should provide in four payments of £SOO a year, the first to be made after the session of 1923.