paanga ki te tangata kotahi kia totopu ai, me whakakore atu ranei nga whenua Maori me hoko e Te Karuna, a me whakakaporeihana ranei. Tera e taea nga mahi whakatopu paanga me nga whakakaporeihana, engari e kore te Kawanatanga e whakaaro ki te tango i nga whenua o te Maori ki te tango pokanoa ranei i nga paanga whenua o tetahi Maori ka hoatu he tangata ke. Ko te whakatopu paanga te taanga manawa i nga ra ka taha; engari ki te ata tirohia ano ahakoa pehea te nui o te mahi kua whakapaua ki nga mahi whakatopu paanga ina noa ake te wahi o nga whenua mo tenei mahi kua rakuhia. Ko te whakatopu paanga he mahi nui he mahi roa a ma nga tangata tohunga kua whawha ki tera tu mahi e ata takatau. Ahakoara he taanga manawa noa iho te mahi whakatopu paanga ka matemate nga matua ka whakauruurua nga tamariki hei kairiiwhi a nawai ra ka hoki ano nga taitara ki nga ahua wheru o mua atu. Tetahi ahakoa pehea te pai o te mahi i nga mahi whakatopu paanga ka toe tonu etahi mokamoka hei whakaanini i nga apiha mahi i tenei mahi. I te timatatanga o nga mahi whakatopu paanga kawea ai nga paanga mokamoka ki nga wahi whakarihariha, ka wehea hei rori hei rahui ranei. Na he pai tonu te whakaaro me whakakaporeihana nga whenua Maori ara me tuku aua whenua ma tetahi komiti e whakahaere e riihi ranei. He nui nga whenua Maori kei te peneitia a ka nui te ora o te hunga no ratou aua whenua. Engari ia tera ano ona makenu—ahakoa ano hoki kei raro nga whenua i te kaporeihana ka haere tonu nga mahi kairiiwhi ki nga paanga o te hunga kua tupapakutia kia whai rarangi ingoa ai hoki mo te karawarawa i nga moni hua o aua whenua. E tika ana hoki me ata mahi nga kaute o nga kaporeihana ahakoa kore hua hei karawarawa, engari kia noho tika ai nga kaute hei maunga ringa mo te Tari Taake. Ka piki haere te tokomaha o te hunga kei runga i te rarangi ingoa o aua whenua ka taumaha nga mahi ma nga tangata mahi i nga kaute a kua timata tonu te hemanawa haere o taua hunga inaianei, e ako a ko ake nei e kore e kitea te aroaro whenua. Ko te whakakaporeihana me te tuku i nga whenua ki te ringa o te Kaitieki ehara i te rongoa pumau mo nga hemanawatanga o nga mokamoka whenua Maori. Ina tetahi mea hei ata whakaarotanga. He tokomaha o te hunga no ratou nga mokamoka paanga whenua Maori e whakaae ana ki te hoko i o ratou paanga mehemea ka whiwhi ratou i tetahi utu tika. Ko te nuinga o taua hunga kua whati ki nga taone mahi ai, a ko o ratou mokamoka whenua kua kore noaiho he the answer. Others suggest that the Court should be given power to award an interest to one successor only, if it thinks the interest too small to be split up. Another view is that the whole root of the trouble should be eradicated by doing away with Maori land altogether—with the Crown gradually buying it up. Yet another suggestion is that the solution lies in making more use of incorporations, or something of the sort. Of these suggestions, consolidation and incorporation appear the most promising. The Government is not prepared to consider any course which would deprive Maoris generally of their land, nor any course which would result in arbitrarily benefiting one successor at the expense of others. As for consolidation, great hopes have been pinned to this in the past, but it is painfully clear that the immense amount of work so far put into this operation has not produced proportionate results. Consolidation is a slow and difficult process, requiring the services of highly trained officers. It would not be practicable to undertake consolidation in more than a comparatively limited way. Apart from this, consolidation does not provide any final answer. Even if a consolidation scheme results in the holding of land in worthwhile areas, the same old trouble of splitting interests goes on, as owners die and are succeeded. Then, too, there is the point that no matter how well a consolidation scheme is carried out, there are always a number of small interests the location of which is a headache. One solution in the past has been to cut off a block of the roughest part of the land for these small owners. Sometimes this land is put into roads or reserves. Consolidation, by itself, does not even for the time being dispose of all the small interests. The incorporation suggestion is interesting, and has some obvious advantages. It means putting the land into the hands of trustees or committees of management to work or lease. Many incorporations have been working successfully for years. This is all very well, but it does not do away with the main evil. Even when interests are incorporated, succession still goes on, lists of owners must be kept, and profits distributed to those owners. The incorporation must keep fairly detailed accounts, even if only for taxation purposes, and for all except the biggest blocks the cost of keeping proper records and accounts is, with the growing numbers of owners, becoming a serious burden. Incorporation and vesting in trustees does not really avoid the difficulties arising from numerous interests. There is another side of the whole matter. Many owners with comparatively small interests