KAPITI ISLAND.
MR FIELD'S CRITISISM. The administration of Kapiti Island was described as a “gross public scanday “ by Mr IV. 11. Yield (Otaki) ill the House of Representatives. Ho asked if the Government intended >.o acquire the remaining Native interests un the island, and if it intended to produce some public revenue from the island, instead of allowing a set of private individuals to make hundreds and perhaps thousands of pounds by “farming the Government’s grass and llie Government’* sheep.’’ The Minister of Lauds, in reply, sni 1
iliat when a -proposal relating te Kapiti Island came before the Lunds Committee of the House it was thrown nut. He agreed that the remaining Native interests ought to be pur .-based. He had taken steps to form a' board, which would control the island, but the persons invited to sit on the board had not yet replied. He would proceed with this proposal.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 8 September 1920, Page 4
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