KAURIS FELLED
FOR POSTS AND BATTENS.
FIFTEEN MAORIS CONVICTED
MORRINSVILLE, October 26
Fifteen Maoris living in the Hoe-o-Tainui'Valley, near Ta huna, were prosecuted iii the Magistrate’s Court by the Lands Department for removing timjber from a Crown block in the Mangawara Valley'. The trees cut down included five large kauris, the largest of which was said to have contained enough timber to build two houses. The trees had been.'split dp to make posts and battens, which were sold to farmers. Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M. convicted all the defendants and ordered them each to pay the costs of the prosecution. “'Qicse prosecution®, are not brought wjth the idea of punishing the natives or of imposing a-heavy- penalty,” said the magistrate, ‘‘but- merely to let them know that they cannot go on to Crown land and cut valuable timber without a license.” The Maoris said that they thought the trees were on a block in. which they had undivided interests, and they contended that they were working on the right side of the boundary between the block of Crown land and native block. The Crown lands ranger gave evidence to show that the trees were on Crown land.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1931, Page 8
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196KAURIS FELLED Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1931, Page 8
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