NATIVE LAND LEGISLATION.
Mr W. H. Herries, who represented the Bay of Plenty in the last Parliament, has a very poor opinion of the work of the Native Land Commis sion. At a meeting at Cambridge last week he said the native land legislation of the Government was absolutely the worst in the whole world, and it would puzzle a Philadelphia!] lawyer to understand it. It was always introduced at the fag end of a session, and was a huge mass of contradictions, and had proved to be unworkable, and this was proved by the fact that notwithstanding special commissioners (Sir Robert Stout and Mr Ngata), men of the strictest integrity, had been appointed to deal with the question, not an acre of land had changed hands, and the matter appeared to be just as far off settlement as ever. The candidate contended the only way to solve the difficulty would be to individualise the native titles. The Maori preferred to deal with his own land and money, but he must be got out of the system of communism and put on the same footing as the European.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3042, 12 November 1908, Page 4
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188NATIVE LAND LEGISLATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3042, 12 November 1908, Page 4
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