NATIVE LANDS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2192, 3 July 1914, Page 8

NATIVE LANDS

, A SAMSPAOK3RY SIGN. ; In same .reiterlvs reggidtag tlie land , question 3ast night, jir xf. Mander, M.E, seid that' to fact tljii.t .so.fiw? ef tho Natives in tire North of Aiidvfcnd had. ex|3rfrssed dissa-tisfac-tlott wfth tto prcseri* Government was ■ an jridica tiott Uia* tho ppKcy of thu feJoycr'nmejit. was already- beginfting ta have a good effect, A gwm* many of tho Maori landowners, lie snW, fliottgJi-t' I , timt they should pay he rates or ta.ses, I ami that they should bis permitteci to ■ rrilo'w their lafi.i to lieco-mo o-vcfgrOwH : witli Boxiovts sveeds, -and- to bijcgiiiie a- ! p-uMc nvr-kancc-. It was time that tlm j iVjtois vecagtiised their rcsp.o.iisibißties. Tije.V ive-re provided fey the (J.iavx'riaieiit : lyittj all tlie farfMties of li-widem civilisation j ivwd they . eliouki. be tetpaired ta : conirikite a fair share- tewnrds tke to-, wftue of the country. AVlii-to lie was,: in faww of (Miig justiee to the ilaoiis,: and flasuritig that they slumW ]j.a\-e ■ 6ne»n;h ia-ml J'ot their own ttsfl, lie i\lmi ! iteagiit that jmike sliould be cloiw to the reiMlinder'oi' Hie popuk-tion. They sliould i-iet- allow Jilt; -progress of tho 1 I pominiqn to ta retntdosl ky poimittuig j largft nress of Xatire latafs to remain'1 l.Ul.p.i'odVK/fefi, J Me, Mnedcma'td (Bay of Ptenty) : You ! ca-nnot open it ap. without memey., 31-r. Slaiidt'i , : xe\i ean-iiofc buy large estates without raoney, Mr. Witty (BiecarteM); fate it Irtism t'tva Native evofy time . f Why not. Ijiirsi ■Up the large estates? Sir. Mawlpir: If it is right Us l)-tjrst up ifH'ge estates rt is also rigfjt t<j. toko steps to ensure that tho pog'i*ss. til tlie oMirttry sJiettttl 'Mot be any lifligcr kepi htmk by .a "tR-fttoa" policy nj (<s. iptti to Nsliyetoda.