Report on Petition of Apanui te Hamaiwaho and Others.

Petitioners request that the laws passed by (County?) Councils in their district may not be hurriedly brought into operation, because they are very hard upon Natives who are not well off.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That the Committee do not deem it necessary or desirable to recommend any alteration in the law in the direction of further exemption of Native lands from local rates.