Nos. 128 and 129 Sess. 1.—Petitions of Hori te Aunoanoa and 77 Others, and Peneamine Waipapa and 74 Others.

Petitioners state that they own a block of land called Waipiro, and which was awarded to them by the Native Land Court, but at a rehearing of the Court 10,000 acres of the block were wrongly awarded to other Natives. They now pray that a third hearing may take place to finally decide who are the rightful owners of the land in question.

I am directed to report as follows: That, as there seems to be such a wide difference between the original judgment of the Native Land Court in the Waipiro Block and its judgment in the rehearing thereof, and after viewing the viewing the evidence which has been submitted, the Committee consider the application for a further hearing a reasonable one, and recommend that it should be granted, so that the disputed question of the ownership of such a valuable block of land may be entirely set at rest.