Native Land Administration.
♦ THE LAW'S DELAY. [Sphoiaii to the •' Stab."] NAPIER, Jan. 6. Although the Native Land Adminiatra tion Act came iuto force on January 1 no machinery has been supplied to main .it workable. The Act empowers the Qorer -. nor to appoint Commissioners, and define the localities within which they Bhal • exercise their functions. The whole Ad depends for its operation on thes< Commissioners. Nothing can be don< without them, yet none have beei appointed. An immense amount of worl has already accumulated for the Commis sioners to attend to when appointed It is not thought the Hawke's Bay Nativei will bring much land under the operatioi of the Act, but settlers who have been ii negotiation for the purchase or lease o Native lands, are naturally anxious to pu * their transactions straight with the law.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5818, 6 January 1887, Page 3
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