NATIVE LAND COURT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 249, 9 April 1910, Page 2

NATIVE LAND COURT.

Regulations under the Native. l.nnd Act of las!, session have been drafted, and it is anticipated I,hat they will bo Gazetted in a day or two. Their chief feature will be the constitution of various circuits for the Native Land Court judges. In the past, the judges have held sittings at various places, and have continued their sittings! until the business before the Court was disposed of. That system, it is considered in some quarters, conduced to the development of the "taihoa" feeling anion/* the Natives who had buaines i with the Court. There was no nee'd • for haste, the Coq' t was there, an 4 what was not done yesterday coijld Lie) done just as well the day after (q----morrow. That system is to bo dono away with. In future the Court will git at a certain place on a certain data, and f(jr a definite porioi], and anything left undone will have to wait tho next sitting 1 of the Court, ljy this means it ia hoped to "speed up" the Maoris who have business with the Court. Under the new regulations, the Court will iirst devote its energies to the task of partitioning and giving a title to the large areas of land north of Whangarei. and inland on the East Coast.