Final Report.

I am directed to report that the Native Affairs Committee held its final meeting on Monday, the 22nd October.

During the session the main Committee held twenty-six meetings, and the sub-committee held four meetings.

Including thirty-one petitions undealt-with last year, the Committee had before it eighty petitions: of these, fifty were considered and reported on; the remaining thirty, as per schedule attached, are held over for consideration next session.

The following Bills were referred to and duly reported on by the Committee: viz., the Horowhenua Block Act Amendment Bill, the Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Bill, the Maori Land Settlement Act Amendment Bill, and the Landless Natives Bill.

The Committee desires to place on record its appreciation of the painstaking and efficient manner in which the clerk, Mr. J. L. Haselden, performed his duties.

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Ripoata Whakamutunga.

Kua whakahaua ahau kia ripoata, no te Mane, te 22 o Oketopa, i tu ai te huihuinga whakamutunga o te Komiti mo nga Mea Maori.

I tenei tuunga o te Paremata e rua tekau ma ono nga huihuinga o te Komiti-Nui, a e wha nga huihuinga o te Komiti-Raro.

Hui atu ki nga pitihana e toru tekau ma tahi kaore i whakahaerea i tera tau, e waru tekau nga pitihana i takoto ki te aroaro o te Komiti, a e rima tekau o enei i whiriwhiria i ripoatatia, a ko te toru tekau i toe, e mau nei i te Kupu Apiti ki tenei, kua nukuhia mo tera tuunga o te Paremete whiriwhiria ai.

Ko enei e whai ake nei nga Pire i tukua mai ki te Komiti, a kua ripoatatia e te Komiti ara: te Pire Whakatikatika i te Ture mo Horowhenua Poraka, te Pire Whakatau Kereme Whenua Maori Whakatikatika Ture, te Pire Whakatikatika i te Ture Whakanohonoho Whenua Maori, me te Pire mo nga Maori Whenua Kore.

E hiahia ana te Komiti kia tuhituhia ki roto ki nga pukapuka tona whakapai ki te pukumahi me te mohio o te karaka (o te Komiti) ara, o Mr. J. L. Haselden ki te whakahaere i ana mahi.