MAORI LAND SETTLEMENT.
jap!' • THE BILL AND THE COUNCIL. (Per Floss Association.) If ;■ Wellington, last night. Ib Legialativo Oonnoil last evening Oolonol Pitt moved the eeoond reading of HI the Maori Land Settlement Bill. • ! t Mr Mahiita said he appreciated the moasnre as one whioh would greatly benefit his people. ■I -Mr Ormond said he regarded the Bill as a good one, and ho trusted tho next Parliament would yet further improve legists.' lioa in the diceotion of dealing with native lands in a similar fashion to that being done with the lands of Europeans, Tho * provisions as to leasing or selling native { lands might also bo improved by bringing I 5“ netlve lands under tho Lands for Settlement Aot. Perhaps the best part of the Bill was oontained in oiause 16, whioh re-
moved rostriotlons against alienation by lease,-and whilst holding that native lands might have been dealt with similar to those nndor European oontrol, yet ho agreed to aooept the present Bill without amendment. v » Mr Kennedy MacDonald strongly condemned the Bill as ono quite unfair to Europeans, and condemned the Government for bringing anoh on Important measure down darling the dying hoars of the session. The Bill was read a second timo on the vole3B. -.*
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1596, 28 October 1905, Page 3
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