NATIVE LAND CASE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10717, 22 October 1912, Page 6

NATIVE LAND CASE

(By Td?-jrr»> ■-■???:< As aeration.)

WELLfXCTON', Last Night

A long-slanding grievance, on the part of tin- Ngatahu tvilu- of South Island natives. was discussed by a deputation which waited on the Tromior yesterday. 1 11 tne Go\ cement acquired 7,000,000 acres of tribal lands, extending from Kaiapci in Otago heads, tl'O understanding that a deposit of £2OOO should he paid and that one acre in ovor.v ton .should be reserved for the use of Maori sellers. The Maoris received tho €'2ooo, hut they never got one neve in ton. In addition the Government took 13,000.000 acres further inland, belonging to the same- tribe, for which nothing was paid, hut in regard to vhicii the Maoris understood that the principle of giving tho- Maoris one acre in ten was to ho extended. The :ativos claim that under it? ferms of the cession of their, lands, i!;ev vi re entitled to he provided with school-, •hospitals a tul medical attendanr;*.. and they further asked t-hat (lie term.? of the agreement should he c.rri-.'d out, and thai they slr'Xihl receive- for their own use one-tenth of the ;:0 - 000,000 acres acquired, or n;i oqnivalent which they assessed a*. 0011.000. Mr Massoy said that he nreo-v-v-rl during the rccc~s to go fully into the question, and he hoped to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion.