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No. 119.—Petition of Rihitoto Mataia and 3 Others.
Petitioners pray that legislation may be enacted to enable them to obtain a rehearing in the matter of Ohinemuri No. 20 Block, they having been deprived of the same through alleged wrongful judgments of the Native Land Court Judges.
I have the honour to report that the Committee, having gone carefully into the matter, find that the judgments delivered by different Judges of the Native Land Court in connection with the lands in question are somewhat conflicting, they therefore recommend that the petition be referred to the Government for inquiry; and, in doing so, call attention to the judgments delivered by Judge Gudgeon in connection with an adjoining block, wherein the claimants' cases were exactly similar to the Ohinemuri No. 20 case.
[Translation.]
No. 119.—Pukapuka inoi a Rihitoto Mataia me etahi atu tokotoru.
E inoi ana nga kai-pitihana kia hanga he ture kia ahei ai ratou te tono kia whakawakia tuaruatia te Ohinemuri No. 20 Poraka notemea kua tangohia to ratou whenua i a ratou i runga i nga whakataunga he a te Kooti Whenua Maori.
Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei: Kua ata whiriwhiria e te Komiti tenei take a e kite ana ratou e ahua taupatupatu ana nga whakataunga a nga Tiati o te Kooti Whenua Maori mo runga i tenei whenua no reira ka tono te Komiti kia tukuna tenei pitihana ki te Kawanatanga kia uiuia nga tikanga a i a ratou e pera ana ka tonoa ratou kia ata tirohia te whakataunga a Tiati Katiana i runga i tetahi poraka e piri ana ki tenei a e rite tonu nei nga keehi, a nga kaitono ki te Ohinemuri keehi No. 20.