No. 24, 1889. —Petition of Teoti Makitonore and 10 Others (No. 1).

Petitioners pray that a rehearing of the Native Reserves, Wairau and Pukatea, may take place, as they state the land has been wrongly awarded to other tribes. They also state that their elders urged that the land should not be alienated unless a reserve of sixty thousand acres were granted to them.

I am directed to report as follows: That, in the opinion of the Committee, this petition should be referred to the Government for inquiry.