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No. 166.—Petition of Te Hautakura and 38 Others.
Petitioners, who are Natives of the East Coast, pray that Te Kooti, the so-called prophet, may be prevented from convening meetings of the Maoris, as those meetings tend to impoverish themselves and their wives and children.
I am directed to report as follows: That the Committee fully sympathizes with the petitioners and believe they suffer a severe hardship through the monthly meetings of Te Kooti's followers at the various settlements, resulting as it does in estranging families, disturbing the tranquility of settlement, impoverishing the people by a wholesale consumption of their food, and exhausting all their resources. It is therefore recommended that the Government will do their utmost to prevent such meetings, by introducing such legislation as shall enable the Government to forbid what is a deliberate and crafty system of loafing on the resources of the thrifty and well-disposed Natives.
[Translation.]
No: 166.—Pukapuka-inoi a Te Hautakura me etahi atu e 38.
Ko nga kai-pitihana he Maori nei no Tae Tai Rawhiti e inoi ana kia araia te haerere o nga ope a Te Kooti te tangata e kiia nei he poropiti ki nga kainga Maori no te mea he nui te mate e tan ana ki runga i a ratou me a ratou wahine me a ratou tamariki i te paunga a ratou kai.
Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei: E aroha ana te Komiti ki nga kai-pitihana no te mea e mahara ana ratou kei te tau tetahi mate ki runga i nga kai-pitihana i runga i nga mahi haerere o ngo ope a Te Kooti ki nga tini kainga whakararuraru ai me te whakapohara haere i nga hapu i runga i te pau o a ratou kai. No reira e tono aua te Komiti i te Kawanatanga kia uaua ratou ki te arai i a te Kooti i runga i te hanga i tetahi Ture kia ahei ai te Kawanatanga te arai i a Te Kooti i runga i aua tikanga tinihanga whakapau haere i nga kai a te hunga mamahi a te hunga noho pai.