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Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1876.

Report on Petition of Ani Ngarae Honetana and 2 Others

Report on Petition of Ani Ngarae Honetana and 2 Others.

The petitioners complain that their mother Ngarae was entitled, with others, to a block of land at Tauranga, called Te Rereatukahia, and that, she having died, they have been deprived of their beneficial interest in the land by the issue of a grant to one Native only, to the exclusion of Ngarae's kin.

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It appears that this block of land was returned to Moananui and Ngarae, at the time when the Government was settling the cession of the Te Puna and Katikati Blocks. Subsequently Moananui made application to the Native Office, at Tauranga, to allow the grant to issue in his own name only, offering to set aside other lands for Ngarae and her children, and the Native Office appears to have consented.

I am directed to report as follows:—The Committee think that such powers should not be exercised unless publicly and in the presence or with the consent of all parties interested. However, land was pointed out to the Native officers by Moananui at Matakana, which land the Native Department here alleges will be granted to the petitioner and others, children of Ngarae.

Nearly six years having elapsed since this arrangement was made, the Committee consider that legal effect should be given to it without any further delay.

John Bryce,
Chairman.

20th October, 1876.