NATIVE LANDS ADMINISTRATION BILL.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 9, 9 July 1886, Page 2

NATIVE LANDS ADMINISTRATION BILL.

In the debate on tin- third reading of the above lull. Mr Itallaoee. in reply to tbe attacks nuole on tha : nature, said h« ii«vs( reu, bared a debate iu which ll.e oppue.tion to a bill was so It eagerly cm.strueiad. NYitli regard to Mr KolLeUui, that gv'i'Jetuaj: was in favor of tlie Rill iwojrsn ago. sod circulated a sitjtilar one. tMr L.lleettin deiilod tins statuirnk. Tl.rre was no Bill C.lOulated, but an outline was given in tho GovvnKir'a Hjvuoch.) Tl.a Uigik •aid List at any rate it wee circulated to uie Ptsw. Colotiol Trnable aaked for prewTumion. and m the nett breath comi .anted that the ftill etnbodted it. f TLe Bill did tint tr.can that. It meant wliat it i urjoru-d to mean. A great feature of Die Bill vrwe that it carried the uiaea of Native |wso|im «oh ,t ; and the statements tnat Native were nut in hvour of it wore made by pconh r !u knew uvthtaj about it.

A* to the Wairarapa Natives, lie p >inted out that rure of the rnftst intluential Natives in Unit district had approved of the Bill. With respect to the Hast ('oast Natives, he read a m communication from Major Itopata, * stating that the meeting there wits jfot up by two or three? Europeans. Then the meeting pronounced in favour of the Bill. Three of the Maori member* wi re strongly in favour of the HiU; and the lion Maori mem Inrs, In- remarked, had adhered to their support of the Bill in spite of the efforts made to convert tiiem. The whole efforts of the Opposition had been directed towards the conversion of ono of those tnemliers. member for Ilawkes Buy it >2Bu Bussell I hud a great panacea in tW shape of Kreetrado, and selling as si sin as possible. Surely the hon niciulsir k.e w that was impossible. It would not work. Individualisation of title must go on, hut it was a very slow process. This work of dealing with Native lands was a most difficult one, and different Governments had tried in vain to deal with it. Ho upheld the Committee system, and said it was getting rid of joblrary anl corr ipliuii tt was inaiaUiig that everything should La done in the light of day. The Bill was the litao between the past and the future—reject it, and what would ho left? I nder tl* pre-ent system large estates wore growing up, and he asked whether it »*• fair to let monopolies continue while money was being spent on puhhc works. The Bill gave a guarsntee for settlement since it put (t o lands under the law pa°srd for regulating settlement. He maintained that the I. :<lv of the constituents of the North Island were in favour of the Bill, and that any public meeting would supi ort the question, where it wiih fairly staled. He denied that the Bill would stop settlement. (Cheers!. . The question was then put, That the Bill be read the third time. Captain Run.-ell called for a division. Ayes 2U, Noe- Bill read the third time and passed.