The Record Reign.
AN ADDRESS FROM THE NATIVES. [By Tklegeaph.] (Per Pn .v.s- Association.) Wellington, This day. The Natives in their address to the Queen, after congratulating Her Majesty on her successful reign, state : —" We suggest that were it possible it would be a gracious and pleasing act 011 this celebration of your lengthened reign if you would graciously approve of some measure whereby the land remaining to your Maori people could be reserved to them for ever, as a perennial source of life, seeing that since the foundation of the colony over sixty millions of acres have been acquired by the Europeans and the Crown, leaving but five millions of acres in the possession of your Maori people. It is the wish of your Maori people to cultivate for their own benefit as much as they require of the land remaining to them, and to lease under a system that will promote the settlement of the land the}' cannot use. We, your Maori people, desire to retain our remaining lands, because we know full well that these lands are the only material support for us and our heirs."
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Hastings Standard, Issue 309, 29 April 1897, Page 3
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189The Record Reign. Hastings Standard, Issue 309, 29 April 1897, Page 3
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