Notes of Meetings Between His Excellency the Governor (Lord Ranfurly), The Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier and Native Minister, and the Hon. James Carroll, Member of the Executive Council Representing the Native Race, and the Native Chiefs and People at Each Place, Assembled in Respect of the Proposed Native Land Legislation and Native Affairs Generally, During 1898 and 1899.
Investigation of Native Titles, and Abolition of Native Land Court
Investigation of Native Titles, and Abolition of Native Land Court.
I have been asked that we should not investigate any more title. I have been requested to keep the papatupu land as it is at the present time, until we pass better laws on the subject. I am prepared to consider that as the law now stands, it would probably be in the interests of the Native race to allow these lands to remain as they are until such time as an amendment of the laws affecting Native lands takes place. Some law should be passed which will not permit the younger generation of the Natives to make away with these lands, to the detriment of their tribes and themselves on the question of title being settled.