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Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1877.

Report on Petition of Te Wunu te Rangiwerohia and Others

Report on Petition of Te Wunu te Rangiwerohia and Others.

Petitioners request that Native title should be solely investigated by Committees of Natives. That purchases of land by the Government should cease. That the Native Lands Court Bill of 1877 should be thrown out. That Government control over Native reserves should be done away with. That surveys should not proceed, and that trig. stations may be destroyed by Government, or otherwise they will be by the Natives. That all pounds in which Native cattle and horses are impounded may be broken down. That the Government and the thirty-nine provinces (counties?) should be overthrown. That the Native members in Parliament should be equal in number to the Europeans, and that all Magistrates who have acted improperly be dismissed. They further express an opinion that it is wrong to issue Crown grants for Maori land, and wrong also to make roads over the property of Natives.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That the Committee do not deem it desirable to report an opinion on the various matters embodied in the petition, especially as the subjects referred to, and opinions expressed, are so numerous as to render it almost impossible to do so in a satisfactory manner.

John Bryce,
Chairman.

5th September, 1877.