OPENING MAORI LANDS
A WAIROA COMPLAINT
Press Association. WAIROA, Yesterday. Residents of,Wairoa are very in dignant at the adjournment of the Tai Rawliiti Land Board. Itissuppos ed to sit here every two months, but i: has only sat once—in March last. The work is congested. Thousand: of acres are idle, ns the lessees cannot get on it. Now the Board Jin: been adjourned to August 14th. Nat ires and Europeans have been put to a lot of trouble.. The Board’s excuse is the bad roads, but the ordinary mail coach is running as usual. Prospective settlers have been waiting six months for confirmation of leases These have been sent to Gicborne and returned for the meeting of the adjourned Board. The Land Board is supposed to expedite Native land matters, hut is only delaying them The dairy factories are being forced to close down owing to intending suppliers not being able to work tinland. Tile “tailioa” policy is loudly condemned. Wairoa has been absol utely neglected in Native land rSat ters, and it has the largest area in the colony- awaiting settlement at its back door. There have been absolutely no improvement in administration’ since the Board was constituted.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2141, 25 July 1907, Page 3
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199OPENING MAORI LANDS Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2141, 25 July 1907, Page 3
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