THE SOUTH ISLAND NATIVES,
During the recent Native meeting at Kaiapoi an Act was passed to provide for the raising of a sum of £2500, to prosecute the claims to the £2,000,000 or the return to the Natives of the land between the seaboard of the East and West Coasts, through the centre of the island. The. Act, which has been printed for circulation in the Maori language, renders it compulsory on every Native, male or female, to contribute £1, and not exceeding £10, as they may be assessed, towards the fund being established. Infants are to be excused from the tax. Collectors have been appointed in the various native villages, who will be supplied with proper receipt forms, to acknowledge the receipt of the subscriptions. Tare Wi Tehioka, Hone Uru, and Martini Piki, were appointed trustees of the moneys received. It was decided that the banking account for this fund should be re moved from the Bank of New Zealand, Dunedin, to Kaiapoi, in the centre of the Native district, where it can be more easily operated upon.
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West Coast Times, Issue 4438, 13 October 1883, Page 5 (Supplement)
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179THE SOUTH ISLAND NATIVES, West Coast Times, Issue 4438, 13 October 1883, Page 5 (Supplement)
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