Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1879, No. 2.

[No. 116 of Session I., 1879.—Petition of Rawiri te Rangikaurua.]

No. 116 of Session I., 1879.—Petition of Rawiri te Rangikaurua.

The petitioner states that the proposed line of railway between Waikato and Taranaki will, for a distance of fifty miles, run through his land, and claims compensation from the public money of the colony.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That the Committee do not think it necessary to report an opinion on the subject-matter of this petition.

8th October 1879.