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A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.

Claim of Wereta Tainui

Claim of Wereta Tainui.

This was a claim to Kaikainui, which had been adjourned on the application of the claimant, in order that Mr. Mantell might depose to the truth of his assertion that the land had been reserved for him.

Mr. Mantell deposed: I know the reserve in question. Mr. Wills, a surveyor, set it out, under my instructions. The reserve is situated in the Ngaitahu block. The reserve was made for Tainui and Tipora. I gave Tainui to understand that if a village were placed on the adjoining land the reserve should be shared with the Tuahiwi Natives. I have been told that no village has been erected.

Wereta Tainui deposed that Tipora was dead He had children alive. If it were a large piece of ground, I should include Tipora's children, but it is a small place.

The Court ordered that a certificate of title be issued in favour of Wereta Tainui, for an undivided moiety, and Te Meihana Tawha and Matene Piki, for another undivided moiety, as soon as a plan shall be furnished. Ordered that the Court recommend to the Government that the estate be absolutely inalienable for ever, except by settlement for the benefit of the grantees and their heirs or successors, appointed under "The Native Lands Act, 1865."