No. 148, Session I.—Petition of Ruta te Manuahura Tapihana.
The petitioner states that, in accordance with the report of the Native Affairs Committee made in 1877, inquiry was made into her case by the Government, with a satisfactory result to the petitioner in so far as the inquiry was concerned, but that she has heard nothing further of it since. She prays that effect may be given to the report of the Committee.
page 7I am directed to report as follows:—
That the attention of the Government be called to the recommendation made by the Native Affairs Committee on the 7th August, 1877, with a view to an immediate settlement.