PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 October 1911, Page 2

PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.

I PKIt. I'RESfI ASSOCIATION. ' WELLINGTON, This Day. In tlie House afler 2 o'clock litis morning, in comniiltee on the .Native Lands Adjustment Bill, (he Hon. "Mr Ngata moved a. new clause bringing lessees and sub-hwces under (he provisions of the Native Land Act relating Io limilation of areas, and thai lhc.se limilatioiw should refer lo leases already in existence : t hat iu case ol the instruments which hold been confirmed by the Maori Land Board or Native Land Court, the Disl.ric.t_ Land l'egisfrnr should not register any lease or sub-lease of native freeihnhl land or any assignment of such lease or sub-lease or '.'iny transfer ol' the freehold interest, unless the instrument had attached thereto a. statutory declaration made by Hie parly to the instrument. T), >s provision i- lo the effect tin I no person ae.'i rring any inter.M- undo;an instrument who was a_t lm due of the o\-'eution prohibited ie

acc|iiiriiVi that interest 'by the liniiitations of the Native Land Act. This amendment was agreed i.i and ro'i ■ ;os was then reported on the Bill. .itii! i■'ie House rose at :-L3r, a.m.