NATIVE LAND.
The time lias come for the Prime Minister to grapple with the serious and important problem, upon the speedy solution of which the progress of settlement in the North Island so largely depends. What the people want to know is when these large blocks of Native lands now lying unproductive will be available for European occupation, and under what form of tenure they will be offered. No fair-minded man in the whole Dominion desires to treat the native owners in any other than a just and equitable spirit, but it is imperative that the enormous areas of surplus land which the natives themselves do not and probably never have send should no longer be permitted to stand in the way of the development and prosperitv of the country.—Auckland “Herald? 5
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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132NATIVE LAND. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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