TE AUTE TRUST

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1756, 23 May 1906, Page 2

TE AUTE TRUST

(Per Press Aeaodatioo.) Nupior, last night. Tho ni’tmg of tho To Auto Trust Ccmmieaioa was ountinurd to day. Mr H J Contis, Government Valuer, estimated tho vuluo of tho oat at j at £6 19s per uo-o in 1894 but it was wottb o.inaidorably moro in 1904. Tho loobo grouted Arohdoacou Williuma was, ho though!, a fair ouo in v.ow of tho foot that ho had tbkill up tho property when there wbb considerable insecurity Tbo land would linvo brought more cut up, but longer 1 odsob would have had to bo given. Mr Haraoo Baker, who mado the origianl valuation, B„id ho did not think tho trust would havo benofited by cutting up the eitate. Ho bad not beard of any agitation for cutting up tho estate about tho lime of the iesuo of tbo last loose. Only a Bmall part of tho form was suitable for dairying. Mi E. 0. Gold-Smith, Commissioner of Grown Linds, gave evidenco as to tbo rents paid for Government leases at Argyll oloeo to Te Aute. These ronts ranged from la 9d to Is 4d. Sumo ini; uiidia'dy adjoining Te Auto was let at 8i lOd. Some of tbo bill land at To Auto would only be worth 4< 10d, bat ho could give uo opinion as to the estate generally. A Government rental of 8i 10b was no ci oriou of what the land was worth for a ttrm.

To Keroama te Kabo said tho land was given by the natives direot to Mr Williams. Some of the natives thought the land ought to bo given baok because it had boon transferred to somebody o'se. Wiremu Eruoti, another native, said tbs school had been well conducted, and if it had not been cf as much value to the To Aute natives as to those from outsido the district it wai tbo fault of the Te Aute natives themselves. Many of tho Mauris, howovor, would liko to see same trades taußbt at tho school, snl semo of the present teach ng omitted. Miss Williams, P/inoipal of the Hukaro'o Nitivo Gills’ School, forwarded a wti ten ststiUiOot concerning that institution. She B‘a'ed that the soboil was ■tirted in 1875, with 20 pupils, but it soon became necessary to en'argo it, and then was new acoommolation for 60 gir's. Sh • ro'orrcd to the education given to the tcholns and tbo benefits derived by them theref.om.

The Commission then rose until 10 a m. on Thursday