Native Lands.
WHAT THE PREMIER PROPOSES. Wellington, September 7. The Premier has given notice to move that when the House is in committee on bis land proposal, he will move to amend clause 8, dealing with native lands. His amended proposal is that native lands be classified the same as Crown lands, that greater facilities be granted for individualising the titles and exchange as between the native owners of the land, and that the land for Settlements Act be applied to surplus land owned by natives, and that the native land, like Crown land, be leased for fifty years, with the right of renewal on revaluation for not less than twenty-one or more than fifty years, and that the law generally in respect to leasing native lands be amended by extending the period for leasing from twenty-one to fifty years, and that monetary assistance be granted to natives to enable them to go on their land, and every effort be made to settle natives on their lands.
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Opunake Times, Volume XXII, Issue 772, 12 September 1905, Page 3
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