The Feilding Star. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1888. Native Land Courts
A matter of great importance has been drawn public attention to by Mr E. GK B Moss, a barrister of Tauranga. and when mentioned it must certainly appear strange that accomplished and highly remunerated Native Ministers should one after another leave such a blot without remedy until a private gentleman places his thumb upon it. Mr Moss says that the Native Laud Courts, being Law Courts instead of Commissions, act only upon evidence before them in giving effect to voluntary tribal agreemerits. That the natives have no report of the proceedings, and that as a few may testify to an agreement as to the disposal of land, the many who are interested, amounting to frequently some hundreds, have to waste their time and means camping round the Court, and watching lest it makes a grant upon an ex-parate statement On a claim being advanced the Court calls for objectors, and if they are absent, decides on the assumption that there are none. By the above the public will understand more clearly why hordes of natives will pic-nic near a Land Court sometimes for months, the enforced idleness both demoralising and impoverishing them. I We opine an alteration is wanted.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 126, 23 May 1888, Page 2
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