NATIVE LANDS.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrljlit, Wanganui, Dec. 23.
The decision of the Appeal Court in Bradley v. the Kegistrar-General of Lands, in respect to the title of three Crown grants to Native loyalists after the Maori War, wilt have an important bearing on the titles of many thousands of acres on the West Coast. As in other parts of New Zealand, after the war these grants were given to Native loyalists subject to the condition that the land should he inalienable by gifts, saSe or lease for a longer period than 21 years, except by consent of the Gov-ernor-General. In the great majority of cases these lands were not occupied by the Native grantees, hut by Europeans, who paid rates and taxes, and generally exercised the rights of ownership. The point which the Appeal Court had to decide had never previously been considered by any court higher than the Supreme Court, and will have the effect of enabling the occupim of such land for a period of over twenty years without interruption or protest from the grantees to apply for a title under the Lands Transfer Act.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1919, Page 7
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190NATIVE LANDS. Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1919, Page 7
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