RATING ON NATIVE LAIRDS
POSTPONEMENT IN SOME C£S$S.
ENCOURAGEMENT TO CULTIVATE (By Wire—Parliamentary Reporter.) Night.; The question of payment' of, rates 'by native landowners was' raised in the House of '••RepresentaHyes.'; to-night bv Mr. J. G. Coates, who, said it was of importance that 'owners of native land should be given an opportunity of nicking good before they were,, called Upon to ,pay rate's, and he hoped, the Tw?al bodies concerned would, Show in regard to . ’ Sir'Apirana Ngata (Native. Minister i said i' scheme was, being entered ’ into with all local bodies tljttt would fiave the effect of entirely exempting fr&m rates certain areas of land such ,as mountain tops and marshes, which would never produce anything. Rates on another class of land would be postponed for two years until the land copld be brought under cultivation. Another class of land which would be exempted for the present would be native reserves which were, used for public buildings, cemeteries, and so on. ;. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1930, Page 6
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