The black portions on the map represent the Native Lands as shown en the official map in the Lands Department Report for 1910, ' . ■ . • ' " . . ' . " The total area-of .the Native Lands then was 7,400,000 acres, out of total of the 28,000,000 acres comprising the North . Island. . • In 1895 the Native Lands totalled between 9 and 10 million acres, and were valued by the Government at £3joooiooo. In 1908 the area had fallen by about 3 million acres, but the value of the remainder had gone up t0.£H,413i545i '•■'■ .The working settler by his thrift and industry, his railways and roads, thus mado the Maori landlord a free gift of ■'.:' about £8,500,000 in these 13 years alone.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 9
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113The black portions on the map represent the Native Lands as shown en the official map in the Lands Department Report for 1910, ' . ■ . • ' " . . ' . " The total area-of .the Native Lands then was 7,400,000 acres, out of total of the 28,000,000 acres comprising the North . Island. . • In 1895 the Native Lands totalled between 9 and 10 million acres, and were valued by the Government at £3joooiooo. In 1908 the area had fallen by about 3 million acres, but the value of the remainder had gone up t0.£H,413i545i '•■'■ .The working settler by his thrift and industry, his railways and roads, thus mado the Maori landlord a free gift of ■'.:' about £8,500,000 in these 13 years alone. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1210, 19 August 1911, Page 9
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