THE FARMING OF MAORI LANDS

Abstract

We have seen how the Maori inherited his land and how through the process of succession the numbers of the owners increased. I$w were lands with such a multiplicity of ownership to be farmed? Any one owner could start something 'on his own account, and so could everyone else in the block who had a mind to do so. Trouble started and no one got anywhere. The solution lay in leasing to one of the owners, or some other Maori or European, or by incorporating the block.