THE MOKAU ESTATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 223, 26 October 1909, Page 2

THE MOKAU ESTATE.

MR. JOSHUA JONES INTERVIEWS TUE PREMIER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Air. Joshua Jones, who Tias for years been prominently before the public in connection with an area of 30,000 acres in the Mokau district, waited on tlie Prime Minister this afternoon, accompanied by Messrs Jennings and Okey, M.P.'s. lie complained that the Native Land Commission had reported on the land in a manner that was unfair to him, seeing that he was given no opportunity to he present, and that Sir Robert Stout, a member of the Commission, had previously presided over the Court of, Appeal when it dealt with the subject. .He asked that the report of the Native Land Commission be withdrawn, and that effect be given to the recommendation of a committeo of the Legislative Council, that a tribunal should be set tip to enquire fully into the subject. It wa« also pointed out that land settlement north of Taranaki and south of Auckland was being retarded by the existence of the present state of affairs. _ The Prime Minister said he would hj» ffiad to le*k into the whole matter, but doubted whether it would be possible to withdraw the report of a Royal Coinmis. sion. However, he would sec that full enquiry was made, and he added that there were difficulties in regard to th-> matter which ho would he only too "btl to' see removed. "