NATIVE LANDS COMMISSION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8376, 9 March 1907, Page 5

NATIVE LANDS COMMISSION.

By Telegraph—Press Association. . NAPIER, March 8. The Native Lands Commission sat at Mohaka on Wednesday enquiring into the Wharehawrakau and Mohaka Blocks. The former is about nine miles up the Mohaka River, and is poor quality pumice land. The natives are willing that this should be leased by public auction. The Mohaka Block, 20,000 acres, was the only block in the neighbourhood available for farming by the natives, and they evinced 'a strong desire to be placed in a'position so that they could farm the land. As a result of the enquiry there will probably be about 4,000 acres of land available for European settlers. On Friday the Commission sat at Wairoa to enquire into the Tu Totekaha Block of 10,000 acres, and the Tutaekari Block of 12,500 acres. From Wairoa the Commission will proceed to Nuhaka to enquire into the' Nuhaka No. 2 Block. Two blocks in the Wairoa district, Waihua and Hereheretau in both of which the lease had expired, cannot at present be investigated owing to complications in the title with which the Native Land Court will shortly deal. Other large areas in the district have recently been vested in the Tairawhiki Maori Land Board, and should be available for settlement shortly.

CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright