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Report of the Native Affairs Committee, 1883.

No. 74.—Petition of Wiremu Katene te Mapu and 11 Otheres (No.3)

No. 74.—Petition of Wiremu Katene te Mapu and 11 Otheres (No.3).

Petitioners state that in 1878 Judge Wilson awarded Rauotehuia, in Tauranga District, to Ngatiwhakaue; that the Ngatirangiwewehi disagreed with the judgment, and applied for a rehearing; that on the 8th April, 1880, an Order in Council was made granting a rehearing on or before the 13th November, 1880, but that this had not taken place; and that in 1883, when the Court sat at Maketu, Judge Brookfield had stated that the case could not be reheard without parliamentary action.

I am directed to report as follows:—

That the facts as stated in the petition are accurate, and it seems that it was not through any fault of the petitioners that the rehearing did not take place. Nothing can be done in the present state of the law; and, if a rehearing is to take place, special legislation is necessary. The Committee would recommend Government to earnestly take this and similar cases into consideration, and either provide by special or general legislation for meeting what seem to be grievances of this kind.

11th July, 1883.