ROYAL COMMISSION.
WEST COAST SETTLEMENTS
HAWERA, May 11. The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into matters connected with the lease* under the West Coast Settlements Reserves Act has begun its sittings. Mr Welsh is appearing for the lessees, and Mr H. D. Bell, K.C., for the Native owners. Mr Welsh argued that the leasees were misled by their leases, which are badlv drawn up. The lessees, he said, are not before the commission on an organised land-grabbing scheme or to do the Native out of his land. They were prepared to pay a reasonably fair thing, and desired to make the leases their homos. Evidence is now being heard.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3035, 15 May 1912, Page 13
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109ROYAL COMMISSION. Otago Witness, Issue 3035, 15 May 1912, Page 13
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