NATIVE LANDS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14712, 29 July 1921, Page 7

NATIVE LANDS

POSITION UNSATISFACTORY. AMENDMENT TO LAW WANTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The committee set, up by the Dominion Conference of the farmers' Union to-day proposed the following re mi I : That the conference respectfully suggests (1) thai the present position of the native lands laws is unsatisfactory both in the interests of the natives and of the Dominion; (2) that the natives should now be granted, as far as possible, the same rights find privileges lo ileal with their land as the Europeans; (3) that all native lands should be subject to the same land tax and country rating as European land, provided they have reasonably good road access; (4) that the natives be granted the same facilities under all loan acts as Hie Europeans, so that they may be able to develop rind road their lands; (5) that if after the natives are granted the privileges of Europeans they fail to bring their land into useful occupation the Government should take power to acquire same under the Land for Settlement Act. Clause 2 was objected to and finally defealed, and the remit referred back lo the committee.