NATIVE LANDS' COMMISSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 9 March 1907, Page 2

NATIVE LANDS' COMMISSION

Per Press Association. ! Napieh, March 8. The Native Lands Commission sat at Mohaka on Wednesday, enquiring into the Wharchawiakau and Mohaka blocks. The farmer is about nine miles up the Mohaka river, and is poor quality pumice land. The naliyes aro willing that this should be leased by uublic auction. The Mohaka block of 20,000 acres <vns the only block in the neighbourhood available for farming by natives, and they evinced a strong desire to be placed in a position to get that. As a result of the enquiry there will probably be about 400 acres of land avulable for European settlers, "n Friday the commission sat at Wairoa to enquire iuto the Tu Totekata block of 10,000 acres, and the Tu-tac-kuri block of 12,500 acres. From Wairoa the Commission will proceed to Nukata to enquire into the Nulcata No. 2 block. Two blocks in the Wairoa district, the Waihua and Herokeretau, in both of which the lease has expired, cannot at present be investigated, owing to complications in the title wuh which the Native Land Court will shortly deal. Other large areas in the district have recently been yested in the Tairawhiti Maori Land Board and should be available for settlement shortly.