MAORI CUSTOMS.
REMARKS OF CHIEF JUSTICE.
!(P*r Presa Association.) Wellington, last night. The Chief Justice, in giving evidenoe today in a suit arising out of a Native land case, said the time had oome when there, should be some authoritative definition of what Maori custom and usage was. It should not be left to Native Land Court judges to say what they think is Native cuatom. Native custom should be codified, and enacted into law, Property of great value now depended upon laws not appearing upon any statute book, nor in any code, nor on any decisions, but depended upon what a Native Land Court might from time to time say was Native custom. This was surely a most unsatisfactory state of things. There was clamant necessity for Maoris and Europeans alike to know what the Maori law was. Mr Justioe Cooper agreed with this opinion.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1534, 16 August 1905, Page 3
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