THE MOKAU INQUIRY.
Wellington, October 12. The Mokau Committee met this morning. Sir James Carroll asked Mr Massey to explain his statement made at Levin that “ What had been sold had been the right to exploit settlers, and it was done by virtue of a wretched little provision which had been slipped into the Native Land Act to permit of an Order-in-Couucil. This was the sort of thing that was happening. Sir James Carroll said he thought it only fair to the Government that this question shoud be asked, as the paragraph directly charged the Government with having specially designed this clause.
Mr Massey denied having said so, but stated that when the head of the Department was being examined he asked a question as to whether the clause in question was designed to meet this case, and the witness had said, No. Mr Massey, however, said in his opinion the power was one which should not be there. Pie himself was away from the House when the clause was inserted, but anyway it was customary to leave Native Bills to the Native Committee, and he would probably not have noticed it.
This was all the evidence taken
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1056, 14 October 1911, Page 4
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198THE MOKAU INQUIRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1056, 14 October 1911, Page 4
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