MAORI WASHING UP BILL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12587, 18 October 1911, Page 2

MAORI WASHING UP BILL.

TWO LOCAL ITEMS: i (From our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON,. this, djty.. Two Gjsborne matters, are providdd for m the Native Land Claims Adjustment Bill, .which, was -.circulated last night, ' ' ' . POUREWA- CASE: The provisions are as . follows: To give effect . to .the recommendations of the Chief Judge under section 28 of the Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1910. The Native Land. Court' is authorised and directed to inquire and detei'mine whether any persons .who claim to be entitled- 'to-hre admitted -as;mvners of Pourewa Island, m the Gisborne Native land district,, ha.ye been omitted from the original title, although entitled to be included/ therein, to declare; such persons to be part ownera of the said land, a.nd to amend the title by adding the names of such persons, substituting if necessary the proper representatives of such as are dead, ;with power to . the Court, if it thinks fit, to cancel or amend any orders ihade' subsequent to the date of the originial title. The ■ provisions ot ; this section shall not invalidate any valid alienation? 'made .m) \reape6t iof vtho said lands -before the passing of/ this 'Apt. 'PURCHASE QF TOJKQMARO FREE 2-

The Bill further provides that (1) the Puhjic Trustee is, hereby authorised to sell '( to /the : ; iTpkomaru Sheepf armers' Freezing CJompariy, Ltd., at such price as he considers 1 reasonable, the shares allotted to him m the said company, pur-suant-to, the. .provisions, of : the Tokoinaru Fi^ezih^ W^rks Sitfe L A-ei);'l9|9, and ; tlie said company, notwithstanding any rule of law to the contrary, is hereby . ii.uthotised U> purchase, and Jheld such shares. (2)<The piif chase, imoiteyif to ibe) receiSred oSmfpresa'id by the Pnbli'c Trustee shall ibe'paid by hirti to the owa^ers thereof m the r; proportions' determined by the Native Land Court;. pui;B_uant {: tp section 5 of the aforesaid Act. £&;': .