NATIVE OBSTRUCTION TO GOVERNMENT SURVEYS.
Auckland, This day,
Mr Stubbings, surveyor, returned to Cambridge last evening from Waotu, having been forcibly obstructed in laying off the subdivisions of tho Waotu South block by the Whatuaro and tho Ngatingaronga followers. About 4 o'clock on Wednesday Mr Stubbings started to run tho line through the disputed territory, when the natives, who up to nowhadbeen stationed at intervals over the block, gathered in about him, and on putting tho first pole in the ground a native who appears to be a chief ordered two women to go and pull it up, which they did. Mr Stubbings then fixed his instrument, when at the command of tho same native two women came forward, and, after some resistance on the part of the surveyors, took possession of it, and they still retain it. The survey party then returned to camp. Whatwaio states that the only way Harry Symonds can get possession of tho land is by walking over his dead body. Tho natives were not armed while the above scene was enacted. The matter has been reported to the Survey Department. It is thought that the obstructionists will be proceeded against in the local Court.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3905, 25 January 1884, Page 3
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200NATIVE OBSTRUCTION TO GOVERNMENT SURVEYS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3905, 25 January 1884, Page 3
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