Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1885.

No. 475, Sess. II., 1884.—Petition of Tame Parata and Others (No 2)

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.

14th July, 1885.