MEETING OF MAORIS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 125, 19 July 1911, Page 6

MEETING OF MAORIS.

flVr Press Association.) Auckland, July IS. A matter exciting a good deal of interest at the naiive meeting at Wailii to-day was the election of a committee to administer such lands or moneys, if money were given in lieu of laud set aside for tiie purposes of the Mann. The following live were finally elected :■ —MaJinta Temarae (Mahuta’s wile), Honare Kaihau, M.l *., Ahuuriri (Mnhutu’s ‘T'lime Minister”), and Hori Morowini (or the Wliarua chief of the Central Waikatos, and next in importance as a rangitira to Mahuta). Mahuta’s, it was decided, should be a life appointment, while the others should be elected annually. Mr. Kaihau to-day received a telegram to the effect that Sir James Carroll was leaving Wellington for ’/tail'd on Friday next. In the course of an interview Mr. Kaihau stated that tiie intention was to decide at tills meeting the procedure to ha adopted in connection with the sale of the lands as specified in the Order of Council of December, 1910, to the Government for settlement purposes, as well as to enable native owners to decide upon the areas to be sold to the Government, those which were to be retained by themselves for Maori occupation, and those which might he offered for sale to private individuals, 'b-o.'idv if ha“ been decided (hat the Mocrangi block, situated between Anton and Wa.ipa, and embracing -15,000 acres, should lie sold to the Government. Other largo blocks would bo dealt with.