“I don’t think the pakehas of New Zealand can be trusted to -carry out an honest forest policy,” said the Hon. A- T. Ngata a fpw days ago. “It will always be a contest with t|ie settlor, and the settler w>)l win because he has the vote/’ Home members objected to this summing up of the position. “Well, that's the history of the pakeha,” retorted Mr. Ngata- He said the forest policy ultimately w«uld be replanting the most' valuable forest arOa in New —the pumice lands. “You want a board q( Maoris,” said tiie Hon. C. J. Parr. Mr. Ngata: “Wejl, if yoz <ii(J nq| have native lands ypp wup|d flot juat*e ijiuch forest.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1921, Page 3
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