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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2409, 26 January 1909, Page 3

'lt is gene-rally considered that Taumarunui, one of the sub-termini on the Main Trunk line, has the chance of an excellent future, handicapped, however, by the leasehold system of land tenure. At the prcsent nearly all the land in the locality is held by the Natives on communistic and not individualistic lines. The result is that there is trouble finding the (proper owners of the lands, to whom rents 'are due, and the money has/heen or paid into some iudicia ( l Native Court. Meanwhile there is no provision for road settlement, and the ' own Board has practically no money to spend on the streets. A change of somey description is required, writes a '.Dominion” /correspondent, m order to. give Taumarunui a chance of becomiii;t , a iprosnerous centre. In a paper read before a Scotch society, the kilt was described as the healthiest and finest dress surviving m Europe.”