The Wairarapa Lakes.
This question up to the present has not been settled. The native committee some time since eat for four days and nights discussing it, when it was resolved by the votes of 7 to it that the lakes should bo thrown open ten months in the year. The chairman, however, did not fall in with the views of (lie committee and, we suppose, believing that l.is word was law, decided that the question should remain as it was. Great disappointment was felt at his action and the natives have now decided upon having another meeting to reconsider the question. The general opinion among the natives is that the Government have acted very generously with ’■ ■ouio even go so far as to say that them «... . ..., tll# government, it will be their own fanu • 1 vexed with the vacillating ways of the owners of the lake lands, take the lakes and settle the matter as they may think fit. At a late meeting one native shrewdly remarked that the low water mark was the government mark and if the lakes continued to fill np as they have of late years his people , would in course of time have no olaim at all.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1881, 8 September 1886, Page 2
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203The Wairarapa Lakes. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1881, 8 September 1886, Page 2
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