LAND MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 124, 27 May 1903, Page 2

LAND MATTERS.

PKB FJMSM ASSOOUTIO*. Auokhkd, May 20. Messrs John Heilop and Jamea RattenSury, members of the Taranaki Land Board, waited on the Native Minister and stited that the Government had resarv d lOOaoreef* a town, ship bet .vean Oagarua and T« Kuiti, but to makj a suooesa of it a further area of 200 acres was oeoeMiry. This additional area could be obtained from * native nam d 'ait<ko, who waa desirous of exchanging his 200 aorta for an <quil area of Grown landnairh'a homestead, with a boons of 10* per aero. Ths proposed site for the town* ship was state J to ba near thi juootioo of the roads leanog to Mokau, and also to the Wanganui River, and aurroonded by Crown land recently taken up fjr selection, totalling 800,000 sores, The Land Board h ui visited the ground and was uninimous that the offer should be accepted. Mr Oarroll said he would see if land could be acquirel under the Nativa Oounoils Aot and whether the transfer could be granted, or the native's '*"4 sold and the proceeds vested in the land he required. ' Mr H. Murray atkad, on b half of the Te ELuiti residents, that the town* ship be opened up as freehold. Mr Carroll promised to give tha matter considers* i on.