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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 25

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DECISION 'STILL nE&ERRED, (' • (Fjmjjc'Otjb Owh Gokeespondeht.) - WELLINGTON, January 17. 1 ■A ''writer in one of ' the morning papers has gone to some pains to elaborate, a decision, which is said to have been come to> by ,the Harbour Board, in reference to the proposed reclamation, at the head of Evans Bay. , • ' - • ; - j The board {says. the Post) has not yet, , however, resolved 'to go on' with the work. ' The fact is that a committee was appointed to secure information for the board's guidance, and in accordance with this amungement letters were sent to property-holders in order to ascertain their views about the disposal of land in case the a-uth- pities should agree to carry out their project. This information will be embodied in a report which will be to the board at a meeting on Monday^ and it will then be for the board to decide about •the action^ it will i!ake. IfATIYE LINOS COMMISSION. . AUCKLAND. January 17. Sir Robert Stout, Chief ' Justice, who has lately, in conjunction with Mr Ngata, . been conducting sittings of the Native Land Commission at Rotorua, arrived in Auck-' land to-night. He will leave by the Monbwai for Wellington to-day, 1 where, as Chancellor of the "University of New Zealand, he will preside at the forthcoming annual ■ meeting of the senate. Mr Ngata has "one overland "to Whakatane and Opotiki; where he will hold sittings of the commission, joining Sir Robert Stout at Napier o«~ February 7, where, -sittings of the commi3 sion will bo held.