NAPIER NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8761, 12 March 1907, Page 2

NAPIER NEWS.

Per Press Association. Napiek, March IX. The Hawke’s Bay Education Board have appointed Miss J. I’. Millington, Thames, instructress of cookery. Miss Connor, matron of the Napier hospital, has resigned. . In a case, to-day, where a sheepfarmer was convicted for the second time of having failed to take diligent steps to destroy rabbits on his property, a fine of £3O was inflicted. The Native Land Commission sat at Muhaka to-day, over' a hundred natives being present. The enquiry was in connection with the Nuhaka No. 2 Block, subdivided, "by the Native Land Court a few years ago. One spokesman for the party pointed out the great expense the natives had been put to in advancing the. position of their titles and the long delays owing to proper surveys. The milk suppliers ran. their stock on communal lands without proper titles. The want of these titles was keenly felt at times when local differences revealed the insecurity of the present position. Tho Chief Justice complimented the local natives on tho pactical interest they had taken in tho dairy industry as evidenced by the fact that over twenty of them were suppliers this season. Ho thought the Commission could assist thorn by arranging that thoy should get good titles to tho land they were now occupying.