UREWERA LANDS.
MAORI AND PAKEHA INTERESTS. CONSOLIDATION SCHEME. (Per Press Association.} WELLINGTON, August 3. A highly important conferenco for the consideration of matters connected with the Urewera lands has been opened jat Ruatioki. Representatives of the Lands Department and the Native Department are meeting Native owners for the discussion of the scheme put forward by the Government for the consolidation of Government and Native interests in the Urewera block. Tho Hon A. T. Ngata, M.P., is watching the interests of . the Native owners. When Government purchases, amounting to some 300,000 acres, have been defined, the subdivision of the land for settlement will bo proceeded with at once. It is intended that the Maori owners of tho balance of the Urewera block shall have their titles defined individually, and when individualised these lands will be liable for the payment of rates on the same basis as the European lauds.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16494, 3 August 1921, Page 7
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148UREWERA LANDS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16494, 3 August 1921, Page 7
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