SETLLEMENT OF NATIV LANCS

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12746, 17 April 1909, Page 5

SETLLEMENT OF NATIV LANCS

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AUCKLAND, April 16.

The attendance at the Native Conference at Waihi to-day was well on to 2000. Mr Kaihau urged that the constitution of the Native Land Boards be altered so that instead of two pakeha and one native members there shall be two natives and one pakeha. Mahuta and Henare Kaihau are supported by the owners of the 656,801 acres proposed to be dealt with, and the leaders have the co-operation of various tribes interested in demanding that this area shall be dealt with in the manner they have indicated, whereby half of it shall be leased and only a very small proportion sold. Another proposal for consideration is that brought forward last year at Ngaruawahia to buy back from the Government an area of land at Taupiri, and there establish a large Papakainga, also making it the headquarters of the Native Land Board.