WEST COAST LEASES
AMENDING- LEGISLATION,
.\notber 'inquiry was .made'about -West Coast Native leases in the Rouse .of Bepreventatives' yesterday. ■• ■ •■. Mr. Okcy-said that ■ -holders, of.'. West Coast leases had made provision..to.purchase their leases; but nothing could be Morte until the.- Government completed tlio purchase from the Natives, who were anxious to sell. He asked the Minuter vli<'l*.i>r he would bring down, any miitwljng legislation necessary-this, ses'l'ho Hon. W. H. Herries said that-the (rouble was that the New: Plymouth- Harbour Board made a claim to a percentage of tlie proceeds of land Fold by the (jrown to tenants. The matter was in the hands of the l,ands Department, and. he understood "tliat a clrfnSeio get over fnn difficulty was being prepared. Either ili» clause would be introduced in a specia'i Bill, or it would be inserted in the -,%s7lThg .Up Bill.-
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 10, 6 October 1917, Page 6
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139WEST COAST LEASES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 10, 6 October 1917, Page 6
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