MAORI MEETING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 127, 21 July 1911, Page 5

MAORI MEETING.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, July 20. The “Mana” Committee elected by the natives present at the gathering now in progress at Waahi, held its first meeting on Wednesday night under the presidency of Mahuta. Everything, it was stated, was ready for the visit of the Acting-Prime Minister (Sr James Carroll), and it was anticipated that the majority of the parties interested in the scheme for the partition of their lands would be present at Saturday’s meeting. Mahuta will detail the history of the various conferences, and explain the wishes of the natives and enunciate the general lines of the policy proposed; Mr Henare Kaihau will follow with the enumeration of the many difficulties that surrounded the alienation of native lands, and propound his ideas of the manner in which these obstacles to settlement might be overcome. The business in connection with the meeting was resumed to-day, when Messrs Kaihau, Kent and others wore present. The work consisted in going over 21 blocks, comprising an area of between 40,000 and 50,000 acres. While the one committee was doing their work in one place the opposition, which consists of Pcpa, Kirkwood, Rangikatatea, Tohikuro, Tarawhit and Keri Toko Teahu, were, busy in another place, engaged in preparing a report for presentation to the Act-ing-Prime Minister when ho arrived at Waahi.