NATIVE LANDS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1214, 24 August 1911, Page 4

NATIVE LANDS.

A KNOTTY PROBLEM. . A-brief plnnco down tho order-paper of th? Counties' Conference would Iwvo eugBcstcd that Iho remit of outslandinK iniporbuira wns tho following (which ftand in tlip name of the Otanmtca County Council):— ~~ "That the Govcrniiipnt. be urged to inhrp vigoroiisly rxptdilc the nponinjr up ai:d individualising of all Native lands." "Does the conference desiro In enter n discussioji en tho Nntive Kind q'irstMa?" asked tho chnirman jtstcrday, when tho remit was reached. Cries of "No," "No." Mr. J. 0. Co.itcs delegate; for Iho Otanvitra County, said hi' wished, at any rate, to move his remit, though he did not desire to enter inlo a discussion on the matter. Tho chairman immediately put (he motion, which, without further remark, was carried. Lator in the meeting a resolution, standing nlso in the name of the Otam.if«i County, was pawd, viz.: —That Crown n-nd' Native lands (which, arc p.-vr-ticularisfd and Hirviiyed, or land with a title Uicrelo, registered) lit subject to the same regulations regarding noxious weeds us other lands. It was slated that the Crown Onatino lands in tho Oininnltti County w*ro becomini; over-run with noxious weeds; and notwithstanding lhat in some cawf" there •had Ik'oii individiuilisation of those lands, there existed no powtT to eomprl (he destruction of (lie weed*. Tho menace to the. county, he said, was a very considerable one.