LAND NOT RETAINED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 761, 6 September 1929, Page 8

LAND NOT RETAINED

CROWN PROPERTY ONCE FOR NATIVES AUCKLAND OBJECTION The inability of the Government to retain areas ot 4 town lands for purpose, was eritWise,i by the Akarana. An urgent pro'.est is to be sent to the Government Poems. f the decision to throw or n tit K u :v.. block, near Mercer, for equal selection bv Europeans jmd Maoruc jTt viou^re--1 Maoris in the Waikato, who have no claims on property and are unable n> take up land through lack of are the main sufferers. Their handicaps do not give them equal chances with European applu inti 1 r sele** The chairman of the association. Mr. J. Kukutai, mentioned that he had heard of an official movement to acquire land for landless Waikato natives. There had already been an inspection at Waiuku. • Koheroa was a native reserve” said Mr. George Graham, ' and there should bo a request for provision for landless Maoris before the area is opened to settlement by Europeans and Maoris.” After the Waikato War. he said, land was confiscated from natives whether they were rebels or not. Seme Crown lands were set aside for native occupation, and a few, such as Mangatangi. were ultimately vested in Maoris. s ■ others were not occupied through difficulty of access and absent of capital.