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Report on Petition of Apanui te Hamaiwaho and Others.
Petitioners request that the laws passed by (County?) Councils in their district may not be hurriedly brought into operation, because they are very hard upon Natives who are not well off.
I am directed to report as follows:—
That the Committee do not deem it necessary or desirable to recommend any alteration in the law in the direction of further exemption of Native lands from local rates.
John Bryce,
Chairman.
[Translation.]
Ko te Kupu a te Komiti mo nunga i te Pukapuka-inoi a Apanui te Hamaiwaho ma.
E tono ana nga kai-inoi kia kaua e tere te whakahaere i nga Ture o nga Kaunihera ki runga i a ratou notemea ka nui te pakeke o aua Ture ki runga ki nga Maori ehara nei hoki ratou i te tangata whai rawa.
Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei atu ki te Whare:—
Kahore te Komiti e whakaaro he mea tika he mea marama ranei kia tohutohu atu ratou kia whakarerea ketia te ture kia whakamamatia atu i tona ritenga inaianei i runga i te tikanga utu takowha.
John Bryce,
Tumuaki.
