An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand
Payment of Officers and Fees
Payment of Officers and Fees.
Let Judges, Assessors, and surveyors be all paid from funds appropriated by the Government for Native purposes, for it concerns equally both races to facilitate the dealings with Native lands. Let fees be demanded only—(1) For survey, at a fixed rate per acre; (2) For a Crown grant, at a moderate percentage on value of property.
Such appear to me the more necessary provisions to insure satisfactory results from the working of the Land Court.
In framing a new Act would it not be wise to make it as short and simple as possible, embodying only such provisions as are more certainly requisite, leaving it to subsequent legislation to enlarge and develop further provisions as future experience may demand?
The Act should be translated into intelligible Maori: never representing technical terms by words having a Maori form but no meaning in Maori, but by a form of words which a Maori reader will comprehend.