NATIVE LAND PROBLEM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1585, 16 October 1905, Page 3

NATIVE LAND PROBLEM.

HOW BISHOP NELIGAN WOULD SOLVE IT.

A DIOCESAN TRUST TO ADMINISTER AFFAIRS.

Pec Praia (Association.

Auokland, last night

Bishop Noligan plangod into polilios at a missionary mooting in oonnootion with the Anglioan Synod. Qo had boon dia> oussing finnnoing tho Maori mlsaiona, and wont on to alludo to tho groat difficulty whioh politicians appeared io bo onooun< ioring in soitling tho native land question, Thero need not, bo said, bo all this difficulty. Ho oould offer an easy solution—it had already beon suggested—that the | Maori lands should be sold, and the proceeds put into a trust to provide an income for the tribes and families oonoornod. Weil, his aohemo was that prooeods should bo haDded over to tho Diooosan Trust Board to spend for the best interests of the Maoris. (Laughter and applause.) A Boyal Commission had recently sat to inquire Into the management of Maori trust moneys, but after oarefnlly invest!I gating the matter, bad reported to Parlia- ' moot that they had discovered not a single matter to find fault with. Thero oould therefore be no objection to the proposal ho now pul forward, The finding of the I Commission showed that for many years j back a body of Auckland's business men, of Auckland’s merchants, had beon trustees of the money of the native diocese of Auoklaud, and had tbroogh all those years been doing for the good of the natives everything that honest, upright citizens and ohurohmen could possibly have done