A Native Meeting.
(By Telegraph—Press Association. Wanganui, last night.
An interesting native meeting concluded at Bata last night. About 300 Natives were present, representing nearly all the tribes on the West Coast. The Hon. J. Carroll attended on Wednesday, and spoke hopefully to the Natives of the way in which, under the recent legislation of the Government, the Maori Councils were doing their work. Most of them were now in full swing, and the reports of their work showed a general awakening to the needs for improved social Maori life. A number of important resolutions were passed aiming at widening the powers of the Councils so as to embrace impounding, limited judicial powers in the matter of small debts and minor offences, and limited rating powers. Besolutions were passed last night batting Mr'Pirani’s attack on the Maori Land Act, and (2) condemning the attacks of the foreign press on England, and expressing a willingness to stand by the British flag at all hazards.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 335, 8 February 1902, Page 2
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