No. 70, Session II.—Petition of Rihari Uru te Angina.
Petitioner prays that the House will devise some means of restoring to his hapu a piece of land about 1,800 acres, which had been sold by Piripi and Rimitiriu to a European. He states that they had no right to sell that land, because they never lived on it, nor were any of their dead buried there—his friends alone being there buried. The right of his hapu to the land had always been indisputably recognized.
I am directed to report as follows:—
That the Committee re-affirm the report made upon the case on the 14th November, 1877.
4th November 1879.