No. 475, Sess. II., 1884.—Petition of Tame Parata and Others (No 2).

Petitioners state that twenty-four acres of Block II., Jacobs River Hundred, section 5a, has been sold to a European by Government, that land being in reality petitioners' ancestors' burying-ground. They ask the Government to give them one hundred acres elsewhere as payment.

I am directed to report as follows: That, as there has been a good deal of discontent shown from time to time upon the subject of burial-grounds, the whole matter should be referred to Government for consideration.