NATIVE LAND QUESTION.
The native land question was mentioned by Mr F. W. Lang, M.P.. for Manukau, at the dinner tendered to the lion. R. McKenzie, Minister for Public Works, at Waipu last week. Mr Lang said that one of the prinipal difficulties of land settlement in the country to be traversed by the North of Auckland Main Trunk railway was the Native lands question, as the Maoris owned large portions of land in the district. He contended that the Natives should be placed on the -same footing as the Europeans. Mr McKenzie, in reply, said the Natives had just as much right to protection as the Europeans. At the present time there were 2,000,000 acres of Crown lands open for settlement, so that there was no lack of land for European selection. The peninsula of North Auckland, over which he had just travelled, would carry 500,000 of population just as easy as it would carry the present number of 40,000 settled on it. However, he could assure them that if more land was needed for settlement in the North, the Government would deal with the Native land question in a practical manner.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 135, 1 March 1909, Page 2
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193NATIVE LAND QUESTION. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 135, 1 March 1909, Page 2
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