No. 277.—Hiraka Te Rango and Others (No. 1).

Petitioners, who are owners of a block of land called Owhaoko, situated at Patea, pray that an Act may be passed without delay validating the proceedings of the Court which sat at Taradale, and the proceedings of the present Court, so that the investigation of the title to the land may be proceeded with.

I am directed to report as follows: That, after hearing Mr. Lewis's explauation, the Committee has no recommendation to make.