No. 475, Sess. II., 1884.—Petition of Tame Parata and Others (No 2).
Petitioners state that twenty-four acres of Block II., Jacobs River Hundred, section 5a, has been sold to a European by Government, that land being in reality petitioners' ancestors' burying-ground. They ask the Government to give them one hundred acres elsewhere as payment.
I am directed to report as follows: That, as there has been a good deal of discontent shown from time to time upon the subject of burial-grounds, the whole matter should be referred to Government for consideration.
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No. 475,
Sess. II., 1884.—Pukapuka-inoi a Tame Parata me etahi atu (No. 2).
E ki nga kai-pitihana kua hokona nga eka e 24 tekiona 5a, o te Rau o te Awa o Hakopa ki tetahi Pakeha e te Kawanatanga ko taua whenua ia he urupa na nga Tupuna o nga kai-pitihana. E tono ana nga kai-pitihana ki te Kawanatanga kia hoatu kia 100 eka ma ratou i tetahi wahi ke atu hei utu.
Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei: No te mea kua kitea te nui o nga raruraru i ia wa i runga i enei mea i nga urupa, me tuku tenei mea ki te Kawanatanga ki whiriwhiria.