NATIVE LANDS.
The Native Minister is trying to convince the people of the Dominion that settlement is proceeding rapidly under the Act of 1909, which enabled a majority of Natives interested in a 'block of land to dispose of their interests, with the consent' of the Maori Land Council, without securing the signatures of the whole of the tribe, as heretofore. If no greater progress has "been made in other districts than in the Wairarapa, the result has not ibeen conspicuously successful.' Several meetings of owners •havelbeen held in, Masterton to consider offers v made by the Government ■and private individuals, but in not a single instance have the terms offered ibeen accepted iby the; NativesT "•' *•'•' '•' .''■'' .'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10287, 15 July 1911, Page 4
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116NATIVE LANDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10287, 15 July 1911, Page 4
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