RATING NATIVE LANDS.
DEPUTATION TO MINISTERS. ' Sy’ 'Telegraph.—Press' * Association. );■ WELLINGTON, Thursday. j- ’A deputation from ’ county councils glyaafted on .Hons. W; F... Massey and f J. G. Goates, urging ~tbe..,necessity for dealing with the ..difHc.ulties. of'. '.the g native rating question. Mr Coates said it was the policy of the Government to clothe -the native If- lands with titles as fast as the Native % I-and Courts could deal with them. sin regard to communal lands, he T thought the county councils would ' simply have to “grin and bear the loss yof rating.” In many oases where these j lands. had; served-:their -purposo ..and, i the natives desired difles, the matter; i was being attende'd' to, and" in due ). course the land would become -rateable.
Hon. A. T. Nga-ta -suggested •’ that small departmental, committees .might tackle the problemsrising, in, each.' ; district. ? ; J.- !’ Mr Massey ;sald that whatever was idone they -must see that no injustice, •was done to the natives;'"--"--
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Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 15311, 11 August 1923, Page 2
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