BALLANCE MUST GO.
The man who supports Mr Ballance is a traitor to this district. All our best interests are against him, and no side issues of village settlements, protection, or anything else should blind us to the fact that Ballance is dead against free trade in native lands. Listen to what the Maori Committee at Hastings say concerning the Native Lands Administration Act: *’ The decision of the meeting unanimously was condemnatory of the Act in question. Every page and every section of it was read aloud to the meeting, every paragraph was carefully considered so as to arrive at a proper understanding of the meaning and purport thereof, yet nothing whatever could be discovered in the smallest degree favorable to the Maori and his lands But it was seen that it was a bad law, a law oppressive and ruinous to the Maoris and their lands, a law calculated to thoroughly pauperise the Maori race generally.” Quite true, and if its author is allowed to continue in office all the North Island interests will suffer.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 15, 14 July 1887, Page 2
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