HAWKE'S BAY NATIVE LANDS.
PROPOSED ACQUISITION BY | CROWN. By Telegraph-fFrexs Association. HASTINGS, Last Night. The Ikaroa Maori* Land Board, has had .before it at Hastings to-day ( several meetings of assembled owners- of Native lands, to hear ' their views as to soiling to the Grown. The lands in question are Qwhaoko* Te Mahanga, Omahiki, Kaou, and part of Awania, representing roughly about 100,000 acres. The land is 'of poor quality, the valuation ranging from 10s, and is practically unoccupied. SbouM the Grown purchase, it is anticipated that the land will be leased in large areas. This will have a double advantage : first, of waste lands being tunned to profit; and second, the occupier® will band together to comibat the advance of. noxious weeds and rabbits., which at present aire such &'growing menace' to I>be lands referred to, as well as to adjoining properties. ■' The blocks referred' to are. on .the, (slopes of 'the Ruahine Ranges, extending beyond Kuripapango to Inland Patea.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10311, 11 August 1911, Page 5
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160HAWKE'S BAY NATIVE LANDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10311, 11 August 1911, Page 5
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