NATIVE LAND RATING.
DISCUSSED BY COUNTIES' CONFERENCE. The rating of native lands was discussed at the Counties' Association Conference at Wellington last week, when the special committee appointed to consider the subject brought down the following recommendations: (1) That the conference reaffirm the policy to place the natives and Europeans on the same looting as regards rating as far as practically possible; (2) that Native' Land Courts or Maori Land Boards be compelled to supply, on reasonable notice from time to time, correct names of the principal owners in any blocks to county councils; (3) that section 4of the Rating Amendment Act. 1910. be amended to read. "Where native freehold land is vested in the Maori Land Board or the Public Trustee, the Board or the PublicTrustee shall not be liable for any rates thereof in gxcess of the revenues received by the Board or the Public Trustee on behalf of the natives interested in the land, irrespective ei' such revenue"; (4) all unpaid rates in respect of any such land shall be. a charge thereon in favour of the local authority that levied the rate. The recommendations wereadop ted.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 597, 27 August 1913, Page 2
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190NATIVE LAND RATING. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 597, 27 August 1913, Page 2
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