NATIVE LAND LAWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 30 January 1909, Page 4

NATIVE LAND LAWS.

PSniiEd Pfisss Association.] '■■O WANGANtJii trtlday. Solus strong remarks were made at tho Chsimber of Commerce meeting this morning concerning Native laud laws and" "'the Native land administration generally! An. application had bf-en made for the appointment of 1 iv£itie:it Judge of the Native Land Court at Wanganui and for more frequent sittings of the Court, but .this was refused ly tho Chief Justice, who said Wiin^inui wai already treated the same as other places and that he had ■-•r.!y a 1-Jii'ted staff. One- f-peaker said thci'3 were already 12 Judges, who were tumbling over one another. ThVMayor said the trouble was due to the fact that the whole oi the Native laws jt'ere in such a state of chaos that no o'aa underevosd tbnm, -'in.) the BVB--tera dsaling witu Naiv.i inri.i« u-mea with Corruption. ITm-'l the whole sy*. tem-*as cleaned out from top to toltern if would never <!o any i; .od Jf^Hogan, M.P., said ovpry Memo* of 'the 'Home knew .10-v Native waiters ha*>eii drifting, f r whit-i l»nr.:v ment-feas to blame. \ cry lew ..t the South "Inland members took any -nte.-nst in the Native laws, which were left to six tir' ion members of the North Island to' deal with. Until the woiijht ci Pnriiament was centred on Native legislation nothing effective wouM bo ior.e. He beloved the Premier v.-.ii'd i.iakc a change before lone. He referred U tho work of consolidating the Native laws now going on. It was resolved to interview the Na tivo Minist»r and Invite the co-opera tion of other Chambers with a viev to getting resident Judph rr.d lofiinai Eittnigs of tho Court rtsed. n? in th' Supremo Court.