No. 225.––Petition of Taekata te Tokoihi and Others.

Petitioners pray for legislation to be passed to enable a rehearing to be made of the subdivision of the Te Utanga No. IX. Block, Rotorua, as they allege the land has been wrongfully awarded to Mrs. Graham.

I am directed to report the Committee is of opinion that, as a lease of the piece of land referred to in the petition was awarded to Mrs. Graham by a private Act of last Parliament, it cannot recommend any action to be taken. The Committee may state, if the petitioners are entitled by succession to the land, they will have their remedy by applying to the Native Land Court to be appointed successors.