THE MAORI AND HIS LAND.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2517, 2 June 1909, Page 4

THE MAORI AND HIS LAND.

EQUAL LIABILITY WANTED. THE UNEARNED INCREMEN f. land S 0 4s F teo„ght forward froy. Hi milt on Branch as follows. as" the continued unsatisfactory P£ s^. n with regard to the opening up of Nattec land's is causing senous loss to the Nath-e to lands d made equally liable 5E thO SotUoSks to corporate -th a committee set up by the fiaimeis gSsHS&a&B this session. The locking, up of Natne leaps and bounds, but a ' ast p 1 conservative policy L .. ? W Hr d motion, saul tlie - Statute Book. Sfir|S% ? at r M^s 1 no ifiore to blame than they were. If find the Mam' l bmangas ti * semi - s tarvation. natives m t lands, but They owned the best ot work E£ *» vHI WSJg b&ses.'***** Kniti) said «» there was too much m N.un vested interests to permit that Mr Thorp ( Paoroa) said the Got eminent hod .node i„, attempt to copo with the situation. The* Roj-al Loi mission could do notlm.6, beeO'UseOe.r Robert Stout was well known t faddist and the natives were gom„ t. in the landlords. Until they turned lut the U,m Tunes Carroll they would ?T ~l| i|!„rs"(Tr Poke) said . that more than erne-fourth <rf the land in'"* district was owned by ,‘ f *1,,.;. local authorities lost one-tom til of tlic ra Capt. Colbedc took up the attitude that the natives were not entitled t the unearned increment wlncli. > 1 { attend free-trade. The Natnts * • paid nothing tor reading and iaili ho land and should not receive full value of' the improvements Europeans hud effected. IE free-trade was to come, and if the Maoris were to «■ Til a red on the same- looting as • ' pea ns they should not be entitled ■ the unearned increment but beR according to the value ot the land lore the railways came Mr. J. Gar.land said he did nm. mm the Natives getting the nnearne^mOf^ment. as .long as the land ' v *{' s . ‘ and. the Native forced to pay b M and Share his burden as « 1 r(1 SriKTScv WttW extend rjJihjt while there were- many uUI the way, they were not. bik not be overcome, and lu 1 J u , t in the agitation now a loot ] U)U ' , a satisfactory settlement ot the bleih. .i /' The motion ivas carried. » .