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Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1877.

Report on Petition of Patoromu Waituri and Others

Report on Petition of Patoromu Waituri and Others.

Petitioners state that their land, Titirangi, Poverty (?) Bay, has been stolen for reclamation purposes. They allege that they consented to stones being taken for the repair of a road, and that advantage was taken of that consent to steal the land. And they pray that this affliction, which was brought upon them in August last by Mr. Locke, may be redressed.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That the idea expressed by the petitioners that their land has been stolen for reclamation purposes seems to have arisen from a mere examination of the land by the engineer of the Borough of Gisborne; but the Committee are convinced that there is no intention on the part of the local authorities to take the land or stone referred to unlawfully.

John Bryce,
Chairman.

20th November, 1877.