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

Fees and Expenses

Fees and Expenses.

The Natives, of course, wish to avoid paying the fees of the Court; but these do not add much to the expense of a suit, unless the case is a very protracted one. The total, amount charged as Court fees for the 3,607 cases that have been heard amounts to £6,085 10s. 8d., of which £3,517 2s. was in arrears on the 30th December, 1870. But the expenses outside the fees of the Court are often very heavy. In the Aroha rehearing, the expenses on the Ngatihaua—the losing side—were, as already stated, £575, and those of the Ngatimaru could scarcely have been less. In the case of the Owharoa Block at Ohinemuri, of 155 acres, the agent's charges against the Ngatikoe were £70 7s, chiefly for payment of witnesses; but I was informed by the agent that he had little hopes of getting the money, for as that party had lost the suit there was no land to give as security.