KUKU SETTLERS
ASSURANCE TO DEPUTATION NO INTERFERENCE WITH LANDS (Per United Press Association; WELLINGTON, July 10. An assurance that there would be no interference with the lands of the Kuku settlers and that none of their farms would be taken from them by the Crown was given by the Prime Minister (Mr Savage) in reply to a deputation of Kuku settlers and their wives to-day. There is a proclamation over these lands and it was assumed they wore to be used for the settlement of market gardeners dispossessed of properties in the Hutt Valley. There were about 30 in the deputation, including several Native settlers. The Prime Minister's assurance wt.s received by the deputation with applause. , , , . Representions were also heard by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W E Parry), the Minister of Housing (Mr H. T. Armstrong) and the Minister of Agriculture (Mr W. Lee Martin*
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23857, 11 July 1939, Page 9
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