Report on Petition of Nepia Tokitahi and Others.

The petitioners ask that no new Native land law should be passed this year, but that the question should be left till next year for settlement, so that both races may assist in making the law; and they ask further that forty chiefs should be appointed to make laws for the Maori people.

I am directed to report as follows:—

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That the Committee recommend the petition to the careful consideration of the Government and the Assembly in connection with the Native Land Sales Suspension Bill now before the House of Representatives.

[Translation.]
Ko te kupu a te Komiti mo runga i te Pukapuka-inoi a Nepia Tokitahi ma.

E mea ana nga kai-inoi kia kaua e hanga he Ture hou mo nga Whenua Maori a tenei tau, engari me waiho ki tera tau whakaoti ai kia ahei ai nga iwi e rua te uru tahi ki te hanga i te ture, a e tono ana hoki ratou kia whakaturia kia wha tekau rangatira hei hanga ture mo te iwi Maori.

Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei atu ki te Whare:—

E mea ana te Komiti ma te Kawanatanga me te Runanga e te ate whiriwhiri nga tikanga o tenei pukapuka-inoi ina korerotia te Pire Whakatarewa i nga Hoko Whenua Maori, kei te aroaro o te Whare inaianei.