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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17454, 31 December 1930, Page 6

Father R. J. Roche, who visited Rus sin in 1918, in a recent lecture at Tamworth, New South Wales, on Soviet Russia, said he could tell things alxmt Rnssmns tlint would make the hair stand on end. The Russians were out to destroy all religion. Their creed was to bring un their children like calves* on a farm. The whole tendency of their criminal, legal and civic codes was to destroy family life.

The Perpetual Forests Co. recently purchased from the Taupo Maoris tho Tahurakuri block of 30,000 acres. The price was 30s an acre, and half was paid in cash, the balance being due in five years. The money had to be paid into the Wai-ariki Maori Land Board, £iul this week the hoard has been paying it out to those entitled'. Several agents and cars wero around the courthouse, and it is reported that they did good business. Indeed, it is confidently affirmed that most of the £22,500 will find its way abroad for cars and benzine. Fortunately the remaining £22,500 will bo withhold for five years, by which time the cars purchased now will bo rusted on tho scrap heap. Persons having the interest of the Maori people at heart, think it would have been wiser for the Public Trustee to baudlo the money,-vßtw,