NATIVE LANDS STILL PRESENT A PROBLEM.
KING COUNTRY PEOPLE ASK FOR ASSISTANCE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 11. The lion A. T. Ngata informed a King Country deputation that yester-. day waited on the Hon G. W. Forbes and himself that he proposed to spend three months of the recess in that dis-, trict with a view to investigating the’ question of native lands. The deputation represented the local bodies of the district. Mr Broadfoot, M.P., said that the deputation felt that the best way to serve the interests of local bodies was by facilitating settlement, which should, if possible, be on the district plan. Mr Lorigan, representing the Te Kuiti Chamber of Commerce and the Waitomo Power Board, advocated the placing of natives on the same footing as Europeans in order that all might have the same facilities for developing land. Without taking into account native lands, the settlement of the King Country would be a wash-out. Regret that no particular reference to native lands was contained in the Land Laws Amendment Bill was expressed by Mr Jones, representing the Waitomo and Waipa County Councils. Mr Forbes: We can purchase and settle native lands. Mr Jones said he was pleased to hear that. Native land constituted a most difficult problem. The settlers of Waitomo County had a district that was well roaded, but the fact that most of the native lands paid no rates made the situation awkward. There was a lot of good native land near the main roads. Tt was very suitable for farming in 200-acre blocks. Other speakers stressed such points as the menace from ragwort and blackberry if absentee lands were not farm ed. Mr Forbes, in a short reply, said that he had been impressed with the amount or land capable of increased settlement. He looked to the King Country to pro vide a good deal of land that would be settled under the Government’s settlement policy . Mr Ngata intimated his intention to concentrate on the King Country.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18887, 11 October 1929, Page 1
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