NATIVE LANDS
SOME INTERESTING EIGUHES. ' Tlie annual report of tho; Native Land Purchase Board 6tates that negotiations are in progress for tho acquisition of some 721,16U acres of Nativo land. In the TJrewera Reserves an area of 56,741 acres was purchased, mating tho Crown purchases in the TJrewera total 182,236 acres as at March 31 last. At that' data approximately 264,201 acres of ' Nativo land were subject to prohibition against private alienation, while 38,740 acres were required in prohibited blocks during the twelve months preceding. ; ■ Dnriiig tlie seven years which have elapsed sinco the coming into operation, of the Native I.uud Act, 1909, the total sum expended in tho purchase of Native land through tlie Native Land Purchase Hoard lias amounted to £1,384,,315 7s. lid... the total area of Nativo land alienated : by way of sale during the seven years is approximately 1,872,509 ncrH. and of this total an area of some 6C3.5120 acres, or more than one-third of the whole, has been on bChalt or tQ6 Crown, indicating tho extensive part 1 which tho Crown has played in scouring ) Native laud for. tola &(i,a |
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3153, 3 August 1917, Page 5
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185NATIVE LANDS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3153, 3 August 1917, Page 5
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