NATIVE LAND LEGISLATION.
(To the Editor of the Times). Sir, —Will you kindly allow mo space in your valuable paper to express my appreciation of the plan proposed by A. B. Jackson in your paper of Thursday, July 24th, re settlement of Native lands. I have had many (conversations with both Native and European residents, and they aro all favorable to tho Government taking over the management on lines proposed in Mr Jackson’s letter. 1 might state I have had considerable experience in Native lands, and I know to my cost what it takes to cornplote a very small transaction in land. The last small section I bought, adjoining my property, of only three acres for which I paid the owner X’.'i, but before I had paid interpreter’s fcC3, a J.P. to witness signature, stamp duty. Native duty, and lawyer, it cost me £ls. Surely this is robbery if ever t. ore was such a tiling allowed by law. Thanking you for tho interest taken in Coastal matters, which is much appreciated up here.—l am, etc., 11. McClutchy. Tuparoa, July 29th.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 496, 7 August 1902, Page 3
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