THE NATIVE DEPARTMENT.
Mr. Carroll has boon In charge of the Native Department since the beginning of the century, and has become an expert in the planning and construction of Native Bills, which amuse their makers, swell the Statute Book, and are carefully placed on the shelf. These perpetual Bibs are among the great devices of the "taihoa” policy, for who would be so unreasonable as to urge that existing laws should he energetically administered while new laws are being fabricated? Yet we have, or have had, laws under which titles might long ago have been cleared up, under Which all surplus Maori lands might long ago have been acquired by the Crown with the goodwill and consent of the owners, and under which the rates of local authorities might have been largely collected. The country has no assurance whatever that any special Native Acts will bo enforced as long as Air. Carroll is responsible, and every reason to believe that he is only marking time in true "taihoa” fashion. —"New Zealand Herald.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2579, 13 August 1909, Page 2
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173THE NATIVE DEPARTMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2579, 13 August 1909, Page 2
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