MAORI LANDS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 December 1901, Page 4

MAORI LANDS.

The total area of land which it was resolved at a meeting of Wanganui tribes should be brought under ihe Maori Lands Administration Act, is 232,000 acres. There was (says a correspondent of the Lyttelton Times) not one dissentient voice throughout the whole proceedings. What was particularly striking was the behaviour of the Hau Hau section of the people. They have always been against pdeeha rule; they have always resented the mana of the pakeha, and ever since the establishment of Government in this country they have wasted their time, blood, and property, in the futile attempt to maintain their old Maori mana. They have always resisted land selling. Now they accept in a body the native land legislation, with every confidence in its being the right thing, and they have every trust in the Government. The suspicious and misgivings of years are swept away at one stroke, and they are transformed from the negative to the affirmative. This, indeed, proclaims a now day ia the history of the Maoris, and the curtain closes down on the wretched past. Wiki Kemp, old Topia, his brother, To Hit ana, chief of the Hau Hau tribes, and other chief-’, gave Mr Carroll the most valuable assistance.