MR R E M CAMPBELL AND THE NGARUAWAHIA RESERVE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 665, 24 August 1876, Page 3

MR R E M CAMPBELL AND THE NGARUAWAHIA RESERVE.

Sir — In your issue of the 19 h instf.nt I notice » letter f ro n Mr R B M C»mp bell vintitr the bend of Ngaiuawahia Native Reierve. Had Mr C< m bell anhstitnteii Government for Native 1 could well under»tan.l him, but 1 cer«ainly nrver before heard of Ntnruawahia Native Reserve. Pobabiy Mr Ciuipbeil has atoned himself to anticipate matters, influenced pnntil.lv, by the fact, put f,.»th in C TWBi letter. 111 1 is true that on tho west bank of thrWaipa some return** d rebels were giv*n l<y the Natives Land Court, nir'er tl c hf.id f " Native Awards'' sfveral hundred acres of land. The conditions being, th^t Crown <<tautn w-ro n.'»t to be iscued until Fuch t.rae an ihe Ot .vcrnment wire convinced of tho r loyalty. The land has since been leased to Europeans, n,nd brought in o a hi#h atat" of cultivation, Th" li s>-nri» htwi» sime tho award, lesidfd within t'>«? confiscat- d hou.ula y ntid > fl c n>t at atatod, and kno^n hy Mr C uipbtll as abientcen at t\<e time of letting their land*. In 1873 Sir D Vlul^aa most dihtinctly pn.tn.Rtd th' luMeaH tl.ab Cro^o Gr»nt« would be issued m the native* to whom tb<* land ha I h°en awMided miking the prop r Apportion* for them Theliufcoi relying ou that prom no ooverteil » lot <>' land perfectly u-eless to natives into •nut; fa'tts, and mno doing expend) d t larg« mm of mouty, which, no doubt, has benefited the diniri't in more way« than one. Will Mr Cimpb*ll ahevr that tl^ »y^tfm which bo ih advocat in? wiil in an equal decree coutnluto towards the wealth, baupineu, and *Ivancement of this dutrict. Y.»u will be.ir in nrund fiat the land rccenlly surveyed accord mi; to Mr Oaiopbells "wn ehening cat. not be acrjuircd by Europeans, nod, is th'refore all the more objectionable Mr C impliell may, and probably does consider, that natives are far more dcs'raMe neighlinurs but 0 T W B at,p«ard to differ widely with him on thith ad. In reading llr Cainp-b-*U« letter, one italinoi-t ohlijtod to a«>k the question — is hnna'iTP,Pikchf-Maori, or wb.i'6 mau t Hoping you will excuse my trrapasxi q so much on your time aud space.— l am, Ac, Progrkss.