NATIVE LAND COURT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 240, 9 March 1910, Page 2

NATIVE LAND COURT.

Work done at Tc Kuiti. The Native Land Court adjourned on Saturday until the sth of April, when a new cause list containing oyer 1000 cases will be started. The Court has dealt with some 350 applications during the pa;;t month, the orders made comprising appointments of successors to deceased persons, trustees for minors, and partition of a number of blocks in the vicinity of Te Kuiti. All of the work will tend to facilitate the completion o p leases of these blocks.

A partition of land at Kawa railway station for a "township" has been made Twenty-two sections have been cut out, and these will shortly be put up for lease or sale.

The Native interests in Pukenui No. 2, Q, which is a part of To Kuiti township, have also been located. Judge Rawson informed the Natives that on his return in April the new Native Land Act would be in force. Under the new Act the law in regard to succession to personalty was changed, inasmuch as the personalty or purchased lands of a deceased person would he awarded under European laws of succession, while the lands held under Native custom would be awarded as heretofore. It bchoveij (he children and next of kin to see that their parents and relatives mado the necessary devising by will, in order that the proper succession should follow.

Judge Rawson said that no doubt an amendment of the Act would bo made, otherwise thore would be injustice done, owing to the new feature relating to "legal" marriages. Judge Rawson left for Wellington on Monday, to attend a conference of Judges of the Native Land Court to consider the requisite regulations to make in carrying out the provisions of the new Act.

Mr. Seon, Clerk and Interpreter to the Court, remains at Te Kuiti tq complete the clerical work in apnio 350 orders made by the Court.