RATING OF NATIVE LANDS.
The Rating Act of 1910 apparently local bodies to recover rates IfiPom occup-ioro cf iNative lands, be ■they pakehas or Maoris. At Opunake last week, Mr A. Graoke, S.M., gave "brought by' the Egimont County Coun<oil lagainist some Natives occupying land known as Pa tiki pa, the amount involved being £43, rates* for 1009-10 and 1910-11. Counsel for the Maoris applied for a non-suit on the ground that other Natives were ak'o occupying the fand, hut the Magistrate held that proving there were additional occupier's to themselves did not help def:tndants. Section 6 of the Rating Act gives local bodies considerable .powers in '.respect to tie occupier of Native lands. It reads:— "In the case lof Native land, notwithstanding unything to the contrary in the principal Act, if there is no occupier thereof within the meaning of that Act other than the owner, then the person: who as in actual occupation thereof .shall he deemed to ibe the occupier for all the purposes of the principal Act and of this Act, whether he occupies the land l by virtu© of a tenancy for any fixed period, or 'ait will or otherwise howsoever, and whether his occupation thereof is lawful or unlawful."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10674, 2 July 1912, Page 4
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205RATING OF NATIVE LANDS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10674, 2 July 1912, Page 4
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