MAORI LANDS.
COMMENTS BY THE POST.
(Special to Times.) Wellington, last night,
Commenting to-night on tho statement made in the House yesterday by the Native Minister that the delay in bringing into operation tho Maori Lands Administration Act was due to detail work to be done, a dispute as to one of the proposed districts, and that it is proposed to mako a few amendments designed to facilitate tho working, tho Post remarks that “ Seeing the immense importance of such a measure and the vast amount of settlement that would result from its efficient administration, we can only hope that care will bo taken to so amend its provisions that no further delay can possibly take place, and that it will be so worded that it will entirely effect the object aimed at by the promoters. From several parts of tho country, according to the Minister, natives owning large blocks of land were anxiously waiting the coming into operation of the Act, in order to place their lands under its provisions, and if a similar spirit is manifested by the natives generally, it is not too much to anticipate that the measure will, if administered by capable people, give an impetus to settlement which must prove highly beneficial to the colony as a whole.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 194, 23 August 1901, Page 2
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