NATIVE RIGHTS.
[I)Y TKIjKUHAPH.—I'B.KSS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, This Day.
In the Rotorua lake case Mr Skerrett, K.C., submitted that the real issue to be determined was whether the Attorney-General was right in saying the Native Land Court had no jurisdiction to determine native customary rights to the bed of the lake. It had been"assumed and recognised by the legislature that before the settlement of New Zealand the Maoris were in permanent occupation of all lands in the Noith Island at all events, ard these rights were expressly reserved to them by the Treaty of Waitangi, which recognised the native title and sovereignity. It was, he contended, contemplated that native rights secured by the Treaty were to bn investigated and determined by the New Zealand courts, and the whole system of native land legislation is recognition and machinery for the investigation of their rights
Argument was unfinished when tho court rose.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 485, 24 July 1912, Page 5
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149NATIVE RIGHTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 485, 24 July 1912, Page 5
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