Report on Petition of Moroati Kiharoa.

This petition refers to certain disputes between the petitioner and Mr. Booth, a Land Purchase Officer of the Government, and requests advice as to how he shall act.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That, as the petition seems to have been intended less as a petition to the House than as a letter page 49to the Native members, and moreover, as no evidence has been submitted, the Committee have no opinion to offer.