NATIVE TRUST LANDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15320, 16 September 1920, Page 5

NATIVE TRUST LANDS.

A GISBORNK .DIFFICULTY,

'■- z WELLINGTON, ihis day.> f During the committee stfcgo of < theNative 'Trust Bill last' night/Mr, Lysv nar r raised the question of a number of.' titles m Gisborno district which iverO; 1 held vested, througii *thb Validation^ Cburt. Aq they were held under decree; of the. cburt ■, and- that court ha<l been; kboli-heoV -thdre-* was^'-no provision to ; transfer' ithem- ' A person* interested ?in> the estate might "apply for relief to- thb court, but as it -had ' been exlingtiishe'd; thVit land was blocked ttpr He instanced; Mangatu No. I block as A caise (ii point,; and urged, that the Native Minister _ ejhould make proyisiona to coyer .this . difficulty. He thought it only right when provision was made to accept.>th€sfe; trusts provision should also bo made Jo' allow them to go backVto the native • behefioiaries and not constitute, a . perjpetual trust for natives when the law Votild nbt allow such a thing jii, coil-, hection'^ritli Europeans; « " .' yr' Sir Wm; .' Heri'ies replied that the^. point wig ;importah.ti and he was- gl^d;. it had been mentioned. He w-puld look' into it. So far as the particular trusts, were' concerned Jthey *r6re • pechliar. toi the^Enst' Coas*>but else«s_ere any 1 lahtT I vested m Maori Land ' Bcftirds cbutd bOj re-vestod .by a meeting of assembled; owners, .and it .•nihjjht bo possible to: apply this" system tfojthe'.lands"meiHioned,.^but such a proposal could best be-in--sorted m the Native Land Law Amend** ment or Washing-up Bill.- If, Mr. Lysnar would call attention td the pointwhen ,th4t' Bill iras inti^bduced he woUldbe glad toy see i f ii clause could • lie " drafted giving power to ro-voßt m Mabrii, 1 pwneis.^Pai'likmcntai'v RepqHei.