NATIVE LAND COURT, CAMBRIDG.
TO THE EDITOR. Sib, — Doubtless many ot your readers are already aware that the Cambridge Public Hall tiustees have made a formal application to the Government for payment of the rent for every day dm ing which the building was occupied by tho Native Lands Court. I piesume it is hardly necessary to point out the monetary and commercial benefits which the township derived from the presence of upwards of a thousand natives, besides Europeans visitors interested in the vai ions blocka, and officials connected with the business of the Court. But probably the fact may not be generally known that the persons who are now foremost in pi ef erring this claim against the Government for rent, are the very men who derived the lion's share of the profit and advantages arising from the holding of the Court in the Public Hall. That such a claim is now made is calculated, I think, to raise some doubts in the mmd of the Chief Judge of the Native Lands Court as to the expediency of holding another Court in Cambridge, and thus the selfish greed of the persons preferring a claim for rent may not only result in commercial injury to the township, but may recoil on their own heads. Though my own bubiness renders me practically independent of the native tiade, I should bo sorry to see it diverted to Kihikihi er elsewhere, and therefore I am prepared at once to erect at my own cost, a substantial building, affording ample accommodation for 600 people, if the Government will accept the nse of the same free of rent for tho next sittings of the Land Court.— l am, &c., Aubus Raynes. Cambridge, June 17th, ISSI.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1398, 18 June 1881, Page 3
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290NATIVE LAND COURT, CAMBRIDG. Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1398, 18 June 1881, Page 3
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