COMPILATION COURT.
~, , tt- tt Midge Mair.) (Beforo His Honor ~ a , . _ , ~ . -ositorday At the Native Land Court j hearing of the compensation cases for la. taken by tho Borough Council in the Waio hi harore block was continued,. liawiri Karaha said tho moaning of tho word Wai-o-hi-harore was “ a well from which to drink water,” and they also caught fish there. Long after tho Europeans came to Gisborne that woll existed, and many of them had seen it. lie bad no part in tho handing over of tho land. They wished to rotaiu tho land for those who camo afterwards. The way tho pakelias wero acting it would seem they were wanting to cut tho Maoris from the sea coast. Ho thought tho proper price I was £l5O an acre, aud thoy ought to be paid another £IOO for tho Council dopositfng rubbish without authority. G. H. Norris, laud agent, stated ho had a standing offer of £3O an acre for the land now beforo tho Court. Ho considered tho whole block was worth £3O an
aC J°.' W. Wade had been offered £ls a quarter acre in Grey street. Ho wanted £IOO for each section. Wi Perc, M.H.R., said the sourco of the value of tho land was that thero was £IO,OOO worth of totara lying under the fround there, which had come down in floods. Tho houses wore built of totara Nos. 2 and 0, tho ten acres, were reserved for the peoplo. Ho supported Rawiri that £l5O an aero should bo paid, and if the Council would not give that they could leave it alone. .
land before the Council took it, said that Colonel Porter asked her to soil ; his first proposal was £8 18s an aero. That was before tho township was sold. Acting on Captain Tucker's advice tho land was cut up for a township, and £2OO to £3OO an aero was obtained for it. Tho land was worth .£230 an aero. J. W. Witty, Harbor Board secretary, said tho land was valued at £lO an acre. Mr Simson, Government valuer, made that valuation. Laud in the Victoria township was valued at £240 an acre. Counsel's argument will bo taken on Monday. __
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 915, 13 June 1903, Page 3
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