NATIVE LANDS.
"TAIHOA" GOING OVERBOARD.
Sneaking to a reporter'yesterday on tho subject of Native land tho Hon. W. H. Herries said that the legislation which, ho introduced last session had. not yet mado itself felt, but that the Maori land 4 boards wero making fairly largo quantities of- surplus Native land available for freehold settlement, Much) of tho Native land settled during tho last few years (under previous Administrations), Mr, Herries remarked, had been settled upon tho leasehold tenuro, and the progress of freehold settlement had of lato been decidedly expedited. Tho Natives of the Bay of Plenty district, tho Minister addod, had recently manifested a strong desire to havo their lands partitioned and surveyed with) a view to dealing with tliem. There seemed to to qui to a change, so far as theso Natives were concerned, from the tailioa policv; to which they had previously adhered, A proportion of tho Bay of Plenty Mr. Herries stated, showed a disposition to farm their own lands. Some of them were supplying milk to factories. ■>. 1
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1657, 25 January 1913, Page 4
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174NATIVE LANDS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1657, 25 January 1913, Page 4
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