No. 261.—Petition of Erederick John Barker and Others.

Petitioners, who are lessees of Native reserves at Arahura, after detailing the trouble they have to clear the land and make it fit for cultivation, pray that the promise made to them by Mr. Commissioner. Mackay, that their leases would be renewed at the reduced rentals, may be carried out; and that the. Native Reserves Act may be so amended as to give them relief.

Report and date same as No. 48.