NATIVE LAND COMMISSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 24 January 1907, Page 2

NATIVE LAND COMMISSION

Tl"' Na:iv.- I .1 Ci.iin.i..,-.,„ i„ ',"„''' " Vi " I ' l '■'■)> '''' l i-.Tarliaiiient as follows: 1. What area of native lands (here "re which arc unoccupied or no! prohlablv occupied, the owners of these, mill if, in their opinion neeessarv, ,ee "al'irc of sii.li owners' titles and the "i f 'i'''"l ,ainc. -• How sue!, lands (..,„ ]„.,., | lt , uij |. iscd and settled in tI K . interest of the native owners and the public good. ... Whal areas, if ~„,-_ c „- sll( . u land- could or should be set apart (a) for (|i,( individual occupa lion of the native owners and for purposes of cultivation and farming. (b) As ciiiinunal lands for ilie purposes of the native owners a, a body, tribe, or village. (c) for future occupation by the descendants or successors of tn'e native owners, and how such land can iu the meantime be properly and profitably used. (d) For settlement by other na tires than the native owners, and on ivhat terms and conditions, by what modes of disposition. (c) For settlement by Europeans, on what terms and conditions, in what areas and with what safeguards lo prevent, the) subsequent aggregation of such areas in European hands. Full her lo report as to— I. How the existing institutions established amongst- natives, and the existing systems of dealing with native, lands, can best be utilised or adapted for the. purposes nforcsCfil, and to what extent or in what manner they should be modilied, and to make such suggestions and recommendations as they may now consider desirable or necessary.