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Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1881.

No. 314 of 1881.—Petition of Tamati Paora and 26 Others

No. 314 of 1881.—Petition of Tamati Paora and 26 Others.

Petitioners complain that lawyers are permitted to practise in the Native Land Court, and also that through surreptitious trigonometrical surveys they find themselves bereft of their lands, whilst the lawyers only get the money. They pray that the law may be so altered as to protect them, and also that all trigonometrical surveys should be prohibited.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That the remedy for the lawyer-grievance is in the hands of the Natives themselves, but at the same time the Committee recommends that the attention of the Chief Judge should be called to the complaints of the Maoris on this point, and also to the subject of surveys, with a view of allaying suspicion on the part of the Natives.

26th August, 1881.