THE MOKAU DEAL AGAIN.
SETTLERS WANT AN INQUIIRY
A meeting was held at Awakino to consider the matter of the Mokau land transaction. Mr Iredale was voted to the chair, and most of the settlors of the. Mokau and Awakino district were present, After discussion the follow-ing-resolutions were pissed:-- ■ "That this meeting of settlers of the Mokau district, who have local knowledge of the circumstances connected with the 5000 acres of the Mokau Block, having read a report of a public meeting held at Palmerston SS'orth and addressed by Mr McNab, desire to refute the statement made iby that gentleman, and also desire to express their entire disapproval of the action of the Government in allowing Crown lands to be taken up without public notice by a private speculator at 5s lOd per 'acre, and they further desire that an inquiry be held as to the legality of the action." "That Mr McNab's statement that the land had been handed over to a private speculator at that price and resold to the company at a prufit immediately."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 422, 13 December 1911, Page 5
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177THE MOKAU DEAL AGAIN. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 422, 13 December 1911, Page 5
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