KAPITI.
NATIVES DECLINE TO SELL. A proposal to acquire for the Crown the remaining Maori interests in Kapiti Island was contained in tlio Nat ivo “washing-up” Bill. The clause, however, was i truck out by the Native Affairs Committee. Referring to this matter in the House of Representatives the Hon. A. T. Xgata said that someone behind the scenes had, l'or some reason, desired that the- Crown should own the whole of tin* island. The Native; hud consistently objected to the principle of the confiscation by compulsory acquisition of their Kapiti land. The Native Minister: “It is not eonliscation. Compensation i; offered.” Mr Ngata replied that it was not a matter of compensation; it. was taking the land without the consent of the owners. He must give the Native Minister credit, for having always op posed compulsory acquisition. There vas no reason for urgency in this matter if the desire was to obtain the land for forestry or scenic purposes. Whoever owned the land would re* quire to run sheep there to keep the grass down, and avert danger from fires, and this the Natives were doing :•} rtroseni.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 8 November 1920, Page 2
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