MAORI LAND CLAIMS.
AGAINST CONFISCATIONS. WAITARA, February 15. Sitting at the Royal Commission tn Vestigating the- Native -confiscation claims was continued' 'to-day. Mi. D S. Smith, for the petitioners, advanced U- further contention that even if theTreaty 'of Waitangi had- not. existed-, the NAbives -wocM have been entitled to right over their territories. In sup port of this, he cited the example of the settlement with North American n ilia-nh, for whom separate reserves were sreated, and the balance of the triballands sold and the fund- held in trust for the respective tribes.
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Grey River Argus, 16 February 1927, Page 5
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