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An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand

(No. 2.) — Memorandum by Dr. Featherston

(No. 2.)
Memorandum by Dr. Featherston.

I agree to refer the claims of non-sellers in the Rangitikei-Manawatu Block to arbitration, subject to the following conditions: (1.) Two arbitrators, either pakeha or Maori, to be appointed, one by the non-sellers, the other by the Land Purchase Commissioner, such arbitrators being entirely disconnected with the land or with the disputants, and wholly disinterested in the question at issue. The arbitrators to appoint an umpire, or the arbitrators and umpire to be appointed by His Excellency the Governor. (2.) The arbitrators to be appointed within one month from the present date, and the arbitration to take place at Rangitikei. (3.) All non-sellers of whatever rank to prove their individual claims to the satisfaction of the arbitrators, having previously signed a paper assenting to the proposed arbitration, and pledging themselves to accept as final the decision of the arbitrators as to the nature and extent of their claims.

I. E. Featherston.

Rangitikei, 4th July, 1867.