Alleged Huge Monopoly.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1911, Page 4

Alleged Huge Monopoly.

| ROTORUA ALARMED. %• ■ [MB PKKSS ijao«4Kolf.j WELLINGTON, This Day. ¥, The Parliamentary Committee set ;,np .to inquire into the petitionof the Totara Timber Company for s,an Ordei-in-Couneil to purchase and a large area of Native land, tnd eventually to sell to the Govemient, was resumed to-day. James Raw, President of the.Ro-; |tpriia Chamber of Commerce, Was Emphatically of opinion thaifc the ambitions of the company were opposed |to. : the interests of the Stat© as well iaa r ; the districts concerned. The icreation of such a monopoly which fproposed to buy 312 square miles of lland from the natives without comfpetition, was, he considered, against Ijfchel country's interest. He had no |pbjeotion to the company as such', fbut; if the company could sell with, ifche .advantages of the large areas of • fjand proposed to be acquired, the of hotels and accommodation, of transit -by latid and |wate'r ;as well as the actual possession;, of.the active thermal sights of §the£district, tfltey were no longer sealing with a company, but with |£|bodyofcapitalists with a huge |fnonopoly. If the Government agreed proposal it would be a party |fco|side-trackiri<* RotOrua. It was Mpt^ti^ielthat,Rotorua opposed the' suggestion on account of of Taupo and Waira-