An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand
Hemara's Statement as to his Father's Signature to Deed of Sale being Fictitious
Hemara's Statement as to his Father's Signature to Deed of Sale being Fictitious.
Hemara has proved to me that his father's name was inserted by Pomare in the deed executed by that chief, after his father's decease, and that the document is not genuine, and that he had remonstrated at the time with His late Excellency Governor Hobson, who guaranteed him certain reserves and sacred places, which statements are also corrobrated by evidence.
He has with his party, numbering about 100 individuals, no other place to reside on, and the whole of the Natives in the country are convinced of his right to what he claims, which I have prevailed upon him to curtail to the extent delineated on the plan, consisting of timber land, no part of which can be said to be available for the location of European farmers.