NATIVE LAND CLAIMS
COMMISSION OP INQUIRY,
The Royal Commission recently set 1 up to determine tho claims of certain South Island Natives to a block of' Iqnd west of the Waiau lliver, in Southland, concluded its inquiry in Wellington yesterday. The members of the Commission are Judge C. E. MacCormick and Judge W. E. Rawson, of tho Nativa. Land Court. Mr. T. M., Wilford appeared for the Natives, and' Sir. W. Macalister, of Invercargill, for the Crown. I Tho case was partly heard at Invert cargill, where Mr. Wilford opened the case for the Natives, and led evidence. The case was then adjourned to Wellington, in order that records-might be available. The Natives claim, in effect, that a block of land 1000 acres in extent was awarded to the Natives by ■ Judge Fcnton in 1868. Tho Crown contiondcd that although a grant of 1000 acres at Waiau was suggested, the Na-t tives desired and accepted in substitiw tion a grant of 1000 acres at Tautuku.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2606, 30 October 1915, Page 2
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165NATIVE LAND CLAIMS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2606, 30 October 1915, Page 2
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