THE NGARUAWAHIA NATIVE RESERVE

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 663, 19 August 1876, Page 3

THE NGARUAWAHIA NATIVE RESERVE

Sib, -As considerable mis-apprehension •c. ins to exis in the minds of Hie stltieis, (or »t least »oniB ot them) near Ngaruawnwa, *s to the recvnt surrey of * small piece of laud near theie, 1 should feel obliged if you would kindly make known the wot tliat, the lund so surveyed :« rot intended for Takern to Rau, but to bo held as a Wutn Tupu, in accordance with a promise to that effect long since made by tlie GoTernment to tho former owners, a t-Teiil many of their d<ud having been buried theie. I have always understood, howerer, ihat a piece of about 120 or 130 aces wit usignu i to Takerei re Him in 1807 by Mr Maokay, at that time agei-t for tue Ueneral Quvorutneut of the day, and 1 presume that he, iakorei, has a right ot letting bis land sillier to Euro peuns, or. jf he prrler il,i 1 , to friendly nitiret, a3 liv* be<»it done in teVeral iiiitttt,c.f* by ex-rebels hi.ldinj? Uodi no leased by the tame tenuie ut Tnkerei to &iv holds hi*. Ttien) «r« «ever.il blnelc* \t hicii have been so lease! to some of the Nfiftruawi Ilia settlers, who ate now in occupation, und I h^to nevar lieard of any exception hiring boen ulcen thereto, or the naiivea light so ro leasa erer called VP question, altauu^h they were, a*M Mi Tukerei to Bau, abseuteu* at fbe ti oe of their letting their lands, and luri no 1 occupied them »üb-equeut to tiu a»si<<imem ot the land* to the:n. In »n eJitorini whicii appears in to-day's paper, you are, I think, soinewliat preniituie, noG to j •»y ui-just in Utiug it lot lhar the liovurnment ' me actirely proeeodin* with the policy of thru*. mg nacuo settle- I merits within the border* of t/io neitled j dlstucrs.' Ido not see that they firo tioiug so, or that ttiey Uuve »ti) upturn in the mutter, so lontf is iho navivei to whom Iho land has been nsMgii'ii di> not forfeit their right* iy ill cjm iiiet or acts of Jio<tiiitf to the European st-rtier or to the Gro»einment. How omi your conea- i poncient (J T W B posciblj n-it that Takowri te liau has not well earned hm salurj, and that the good uademundin^ now existing bvtweeu ourselves and th« King native-*, »mi wtncn to be si e.u!ily growing stronger, is not i>i a, gieat menMiire owin,; to hi» mtviw am' i itluetKe. —I am, Su:, HE AI CA«i'B.aii. Uainiltoi, August 17rh, 1876-—[A»-wgM»M'in' ourTiaFn'^uf, we 8 " l " TfH.;i»s oUi juUKfuieui' on t.ifi «v tion ol the G-oreniuieiit in this ma.uv, until «e/»rrhiu^ eiiqinrits we h*ve ci on fo>l, p)i«co us m u po^itijn <o au h riu irely. uml if ne "Is bo, wan no uucu.'vui>t voice Kl> VV T ]