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Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1876.

Report on the Petition of Moroati Kiharoa and 7 Others

Report on the Petition of Moroati Kiharoa and 7 Others.

Petitioners pray that inquiry be made into matters connected with the purchase (by the late Dr. Featherston) of certain land at Manawatu. They object to the sale, on the grounds that the land was not sold by its rightful owners.

I am directed to report as follows:—That this is one of the numerous petitions which have been referred to the Committee involving very complicated questions of Native title to land, and that the Committee does not feel competent to make any satisfactory recommendation on the subject, it being a question which should be dealt with by some legal tribunal, capable of making a full inquiry.

John Bryce,
Chairman.

23rd August, 1876.