No. 40 of 1881.—Petition of Hawira Maki.

Petitioner has a Crown grant for land at Rangiriri, and he alleges that the engineer has taken a line through the centre of his house.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That it would seem, from the testimony of Mr. Tole, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Auckland, that the petitioner has erected his house on Crown lands, probably in ignorance of the exact boundaryline. The Committee would recommend that Government should make further inquiry into the facts, and, should they prove to be as stated, that it should issue instructions, when advertising the land for sale, to protect the petitioner's improvements under section 155 of "The Land Act, 1877."