PREMIER AT HAMILTON
r 7_Per-Press-'Association j % - Hamilton, last night. Mr.Seddon opened tho new town ball is afternoon 'jand a l ar S e osting in the evening. 'Ho announced a ogressive Native land policy, under aic&'tho lands would . bo individualised id exchanged, so as to provide for landsg Natives, and settle the iVXaoris on tho rms like Europeans, making them loans de&ihe terms of advances to sot6i!ers. vo million acres' of native land would en bo available for European settlement, dealing with noxious weeds he was pre* •red|At once to make advances to farmers id Native landowners, for clearing weeds to clear; Native lands, and charge /ners with the cost. Crown lands would 30 at oiico. Mr Soddun also inoiJbced that tho Thames Valley Estate \9 about to bo purchased by the Governant for close settlement.' v A vote of aoka and confidonco was carried by ( cl&aation. The Premier was afterwards I Pertained at a banquet.*'V ' -7- . •*'
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1411, 23 March 1905, Page 3
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