NATIVE LAND LEGISLATION.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10399, 24 April 1908, Page 1

NATIVE LAND LEGISLATION.

It ki understood tliait tftie Govemunenlt inltends to 1 idtjrocliuioe legiilallaitliibitii n-e^t Besiioni wi+h. <tiie< cfojecl. of facdliltetin|g tlhe work of tihe NlaitdVe Land' Cbm<nM{ate. 'AM present delays occur tihlrougSi tlie Cioiin(ni'il#!on having to wafiti for land fto be bit>ugtilfc before it by tlhe naitdve owaenis. It is susrgesbed t&fek the Oomimission should take ebyhi iMlajoinii lamd diabrioo as now definadl, amid tTiiromlsli the' Land Board locate the eeMemieinit o\ rtlie land by neweimßipr fott* the naibivte ow.a©rs wh!at

tiiGV jniay require, and-lease tJhe.bafcamioe an the usual teutons in: .tlie open market, leaving F tbe . .Native La<nid> Gownb to deal wMh/suobesei'dinis in tin© usual wajy, and also, if required, to effect auy^paaftfiitliioiis tihe-Bblaird ma,y .„, eotntffcfer noccejsary. Im fbfovibirr pipooedmre % is tihmiglhlb ißuafc many ex- . isjkinlg dd'ffi«ul!td«|B wiill Wgiolt over^ for Sasrtiainice, thie 'espense of 1 the natives l Jaltto6nfdin|g_ th? TJattiiiaus INlaltiive Ijjuul Courts, 'fee pairtditEtoiniug oif blocikis olf land info sulb-drvfeions, and 1 tl\e fur-, titier (Siiib'dlivdajjlntsl cf ttcce siib-di.vi- . snioin® ■wi'tlhioulfc in any -way completdnp 'ihe origntalßil jAirtfitajoins, .i^iich metbiod tfctereby delays" ymrk tlhxijfc diO'uld -be taiken in hand' alnd damp'ldtod by setae Stfeutuitory body. B«Pelrtifiiig toi lius suiDijefafc ati Eaikoihle Sia* Udbealb SBout said 'that th© Maori race h!ad now goit . to t&e party of the Trtfltysi, aiiud". itHie quedfciom wae -wG^tiher tih'ey.' go to tih'Q. left wr righifc. _Tf tjiey went to - the rfighlt aad fell in wMi tihe GOTeammenlfc's projpoejadfe tllney would be sux> c«3sful and becoftne a. jrreaifc ifaee, 'but if 'they refusod ila do ffiife Uiey would; corifcimue tb> decfea&e, a-n9. o-e loing tihe race would bo exftlinigiutslied. He wlilsely ootuiisalled tiheai to couibimip on ijhto land 1, on wffiiidli' 'th&y hi we 'beaa tiitaumed far oenfcuiries3, betiotae aldi'ful feWmartt, tend mialke tiheiifr Danid. produce as mrudhl aa th© the Bui-ttpeaais do.