NATIVE LANDS COMMISSION
By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI, March 24. The Native Lands Commission continued its sitting, on Saturday, when attention was directed to the following blocks: —Marekekowhai, 54,000 acres; Ranana, 3,100 acres; Ngarakauwhakarara, 49,905 acres. Witnesses who gave evidence said that there seemed to be no hope of the Natives becoming farmers. They appeared to lack energy and had no desire to work. Mr Ngata: The Natives here seem to have lost their self-respect. Sir Robert Stout: The Natives here are the first I have met who do not think it is their duty to preserve their race. The only way they can do that is by training their young people to be industrious. The race that is not trained in industry is dead. It will be swept off the face of the earth. Sir Robert Stout added that the Government should provide agricultural education for the Maoris. , Most of the witnesses lamented the delay in dealing with land occasioned by the absence of a Native Land Court in Wanganui. His Honor remarked that this had been a blessing to the Natives. If the Court had sat the Maori lands would have been sold and the money drunk long ago. The Commission will resume on Monday
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 25 March 1907, Page 5
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206NATIVE LANDS COMMISSION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 25 March 1907, Page 5
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