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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 235, 19 February 1910, Page 2

A sitting of the Native Court will be held at Kihikihi on March Ist, to hear objections to the map of the subdivisions of the Maraeroa block. If it suits the parties interested the matter may be adjourned to the Native Land Court at Te Kuiti.

At the meeting of the Auckland Board of Education on Wednesday the following tenders were received for the Tokirinia Road school: —Hoist and Osborne £175 (accepted), C. Waite £2lB, and H. Craven £244 6s. The tender of Hoist and Qsborne at £l9O was also accepted for the erection of a new school at Niho Niho.

Speaking on the Rotoiti Validation Bill in the House at the close of last session, Mr. W. T, Jennings, M,P., made some pointed references to the difficulties which have occurred in the King Country in connection with putting roads through the district for'the European settlers, and said "and for other purposes, such as fishing in streams which have been stocked by acclimatisation societies—the difficulties and irritation caused by not securing' rights from the Natives When certain blocks of land have been secured by the Grown, Objection? are taken by the owners of lands abutting on these streams to persons going over the riverbeds, or local bodies doing so for the purpose of constructing roads. Now, as the State has embarked in a new undertaking—the purchasing of large areas of Maori land—l think, instead of the State purchasing some smalt block' here and another small blpck there, as a sort of gridirpnihg system, they should reserve pr should purchase a large area when it is known that difficulties will present themselves in the immediate future, such as we have presented by this Bill. It will then stop the irritation that is experienced, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly, by those who are living }n Maori country districts, and will save 'the State from paying a large amount of compensation in.the Immediate future,"