COUNTY COUNCIL AND NATIVE RATES.
•- The Mahawatu County Council Speht some time considering the question of collecting Tates on nfltlve land. So far, the Council has not exercised its powers in this respect, but a cursory glance at the county shows that a large revenue should be available in this direction. Rangiotu (Oroua Bridge), Himatangi, Motuiti, Kawakawa, and other, localities
include some five thousand acres _of Maori land, a great deal of it of con sidarable value, while some of it is being used as dairying land, the Maoris supplying milk to the factories. From the trend of the discussion it would not be a sanguine man who predicted that old methods will soon give way to new,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1048, 9 January 1913, Page 3
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118COUNTY COUNCIL AND NATIVE RATES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1048, 9 January 1913, Page 3
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