jul 1, 1924 - Native Land Rating Act - passed

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The Native Land Rating Act 1924 handed responsibility for rates enforcement over to the
Native Land Court. The Act provided that, with some exceptions, ‘Native land shall be liable
for rates in the same manner as if it were European land’. The exceptions were customary land and land of up to five acres occupied by a urupa or on which a church or meeting-house was erected. In addition, the Act provided that ‘The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, exempt any Native land liable to rates from all or any specified part of such rates’ due to ‘the indigent circumstances of the occupiers or for any other special reason’. Most other exceptions had already been removed by previous amendments or were removed by the 1924 Act.

Source: https://www.hud.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Documents/Wai-2750/Historical-Maori-Housing-Wai-2750-A009.pdf

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