RE-SETTLEMENT OF NATIVES AT NGARUAWAHIA.

Waikato Times, Issue 660, 12 August 1876, Page 3

RE-SETTLEMENT OF NATIVES AT NGARUAWAHIA.

Sir, -A naigbbrar on ridin? olong the rond this morning saw a iurveyor and several Maoris bmsly rnL'tge'l surv t -yin» a pi<ceaf land ju->t out of JTe-iruaw-hta. On enquiring *ho meiming of it-, all he was informed w»s thn.t the land i* to be givon io Puke'ei !«6n and was beinsj •uroeved for thnfc purposr. ThU is a remarkably quo 1 piese of land lying aloni; the riphr bank of Mi* Waipa, in fact the best of tho iurburban land, and contains about 3JO acres. Iho GoTornm«nt hire been rep-atodlj asked to put thi3 land up to auction at a fair price Indi-ed a petition from tho Waipa settler* to that effect bns cone far presentation to tho House. So muoh for the land, fton for the mnn it is to be g'v n t >. Pakerei te Rau b<forotho wnr wan n magntr.ito p»il bj the New Zei'and Goveiv»nie~it. Ou the brenkinjtoat of tho war he was one of tho fl st, to take up arm* asraindt the Got rnment, liis employers and planned and came I out tho surprise o C.jtim King's rscort, and ever sin c hm b.>e i(» determined Huu hau. He has baon in receipt of a psnsion from the Govrnment (I think a £100 a \ear). 't fl -t it was «>li alated that ho should come to NataniaWahia to tcciive it, but h^ told (ha Native Minuter that if he plioae to s-nd it to A'eundra to him he would tike it. After it had accumulated at Ng»<uawalna for two or t'^ree ye.ir«, Sir Donald McLean obligingly wn'ved ln> ■'ipulitionb and 6ent. it. This land has be-'n res- rveJ fqr him for the JaU 10 years on condition that h" would porno in sir.d etlle on it JTe wont conic bub iLe land It, to be giren him, and *ome of liis relutinns are now rot- ling on it, and T-\k« ci has asain got the b.-ttei* <jf •Sir Domld. Ap>rt from the utter humi liation of the whole. bu innss tho hinu i' »11 do to the district is mmii' u'able. The fact iha' mch rank H.in omu should bo wt i 'own in iho hp»«t of a £uioj>ean divrict will b* fruitful of quaivJs, aud not unlikely enil in hlroUbed. The p >'icy wliic i coiiimi'B •uch blunders ii nimplv infam(>u« and mu. c t prove aeon plpte bar to the sf»r.tii<metit of theriistr ct. The GoTemm.-nt aot a f-ncy piico for the allo'inents th»»y so! I in N^» uiv/ahia and the buyers *re certainly entitled to mure con--ifiera iou at their hands. — lam, io, C J W K. K gar ua wah m, Aug 9 h, 1876.