HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House met at 2 p.m. The Native Reserves Bill was resumed in Committee. After a lengthy discussion, Mr Bryoe asked to amend clause 2 by making the number of natives on the board two instead of four." The following addition to the clause was agreed to on the motion of Mr Bryce :—": — " Provided, however, and it is hereby declaredj that the whole of the land between the Turakina and Whaugehu rivers, in the Wanganui district, which by a deed of cession, dated the fifteenth of May, in the year one thousand, eight hundred and forty-nine, was reserved by the native owners thereof as a gathering-place for the men of the Ngatiapa, shall be deemed to have remained, and to be native land, and subject to the jurisdiction of the -Native Land Court, from the beginuing." Mr Taiaroa moved, , as a) further addition : — "Notwithstanding anything in the act, none of the lands referred to shall be made subject to its provisions unless and until a majority, of the owners thereof consent to allow the lands to be dealt with under the act." The Committee divided : — Ayes, 23 ; Noes, ,37. On the motion of Mr Buyck it was agreed to report progress. The House adjourned at 5.30.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1582, 24 August 1882, Page 2
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209HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1582, 24 August 1882, Page 2
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