MAORI MATTERS.
RUA’S INFLUENCE. NATIVE RIGHTS TO SEA FISHERIES. Special to Times. WEL 1 .INGTON, Sept. 17. Mr. Ngatu has given notice to. ask the Native Minister whether bo will, now that the Tohunga Suppression Bill has become law, cause inquiries to be made into the allowed injurious practices of llu.i, the Urpwera tonunga, with a view to action? It is alleged that Rua’s influence has oaused the closing or diminution in attendance at many native schools in tho Bay of Plenty district; that ho has advised his followers not to pay tho dog tax; that he has ordered round him at Maungapohatu six hundred followers of whom fifty, mostly children, have died during the last three months owing to exposure, and the insanitary conditions of the camp life. . . . Mr. Ngata is also enquiring from tho Minister whether, in view of the proposed extensive development of the New Zealand sea fisheries;, he will take steps to ascertain what_ rights and claims, if any, the Maoris have under the treaty of Waitangi to fishing grounds well known for many generations and located by reference to certain landmarks? The Maoris allege that certain rights were secured and guaranteed to them by the treaty and they claim that these should now be defined.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2188, 18 September 1907, Page 2
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210MAORI MATTERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2188, 18 September 1907, Page 2
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