The Kawhia Trade.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 323, 26 July 1907, Page 2

The Kawhia Trade.

The following sub leader is taken from the Auckland Herald of Wednesday last“No dheussion upon the trade of Kawhia is complete which does not take into consideration the crushing elf upon the district of the surrounding Native Lands. Geographi G-illy, as well a; agriculturally, Kawhia o mtains all tbo requirements which go to make up a prosperous centre and to support a profitable trade, excepting one—that of productive land. Having behind it millions of acres of the finest land in the colony, it has been choked by the incubus of encircling Maori blocks, which cMI ba neither worked nor taxed. As a consequence its trade h a pathetic dly small one and it? carried on under difficulties which are not advantageous to any of the partie? in terested. Il has been officially stated that the restrictions now imp! wed upon the K'.whia native lands will be.remov ed by the recommendations of the N i tive Lind U uninLaiin and the enabl i>g legislation. If this is done and if the industrious setter i ■ thus e icon raged in the Kawhia C >unty instead of being forbidden to enter it, as he has practically been forbidden for many years, we shall witness a tremor.d ous change ou the West coast of the North I-land. Kawhia will take its proper pl ico a? one of the m »im portant subudi iry c nu nercial centre of the cal >ny, and its trade will ba -o large and profitable as no* only r secure to it the most favourable rites but to give a great impetus to the pro* ject forcanalisiirg th « Auckland Isthmus and ihiis b i iging the Wjst C >ast trade direc ly 'e the ship’s bide in Aucklmd Harbour. Toe nt.locking ' f its locked up lauds is not only tbe simple but the only solution for the many difficultiei aud drawbacks under which Kawhia unques ionably labours.