SALE OF NATIVE LAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 5

SALE OF NATIVE LAND.

INTERESTING LEGISLATION PENDING. (By Telegraph—Fress Association.) DXNNEVIRKE, Last Night. Litigation of an interesting character is ipending over a Tahoraite na- ; tivp section, J.T.Wilson entered into negotiations with the Natives to purchase 420 acres, got a tnrisfer signed, and paid over £2COO of the purchase price to the Natives. An application for confirmation •'■;' the sale was madei to the Ikaroa N-tivo Land Board. This was gazetted, and the application adjourned. ft is alleged that the .Maori Land Purchase Board telegraphed to the Nativi go to Wellington, bought the land, and paid the whole of the purchase price—between £BOOO and £9OOO. Wilson, who sold his business to pay the Natives, was left moneyless, landless, and without a business. It was admitted that the Natives did not inform the Maori Land Purchase Board of the transaction with Wilson, but it was alleged that the members of the Board were aware of it. Proceedings will be commenced against the Natives for breach of oontraet, against the Native Land Purchase Board members for allegedly procuring the Native's to break the contract, and against the Crown for damages, and ateo for an injunction against .registration of the transfer.