NATIVE LANDS COMMISSION.
To the Editor. ' Sir, —I notice that the Native Lands J Commission, sits in Hawera this week. , The enquiry is, I believe, to bo directed towards gaining evidence whereby justice will be done to both the Maori landlord and European tenant. Tersely put, the latter allege that they are entitled to certain benefits by which they should be put on the same holding of tenure lease as those holding under the 1892 Act. The Maori owner objects to this, and says lie wants his land back to farm it himself. However the matter ends, there is one outstanding fact, and tliat is: the areas of lands in dispute are much too large in themselves as individual holdings. The holding of 300. to .500 acres in vogue thirty years ago has served its day. Any of these lands that may be offered to the public should be curtailed in area for the benefit of the landless and condensed future of farming.—l am, etc., PRO BONO PUBLICO.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19120506.2.70.1
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 202, 6 May 1912, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
168NATIVE LANDS COMMISSION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 202, 6 May 1912, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in