ORAKEI LAND PETITION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 16

ORAKEI LAND PETITION

COUNSEL FOR CLAIMAHti ON disabilities

COURT WANTS FULL INtyjg,

Though the claim at before the Toker.u Native’T*** Court regard.ng the Or.ke, °nly for the return of acres of the v.ll.ge and the ch * s.tea, a petition will later sented to Parliament dealin. | the whole area at Orakei. * '*' a • Mr. J. J. Sullivan, who is reprew. ing Hira Pateaoro and it oifc»T' I the present claim, made this clear * j terday afternoon in the Tokerau X Land Court, when Mr. V. R. appearing for the Crown to JT the claim, withdrew from the c after protesting to the judgn. y.°~ ; O. S'. Acheson. his inability. u/dJV ’ partmenta! instructions, to dea aspects other than those j D tha ■ mediate claim. •Unfortunately, the petitior » drawn up by the Maoris themiehj and they did not include the the Orakei block.” said Mr. Sullivan/ referring to the refusal of the to hand in certain documents, and ■- effect on making a complete c .. . the natives. Mr. Sullivan said timt v must necessarily present an akLf* viated case now that it was rroiSL" to proceed with the claim use of these documents 1 After counsel dealt with aspect, the transactions by the " tth the natives, mentioning the he mg of the former trust on the chase, and contending that the CnZ' should not have made purchase, w ‘"5 several natives landless, he JL W trcmu A\ atene. aged 64. to opeTtL evidence In support of the clamT The witness said he was one of ■ 1« natives whose names were en - original title. When the uppc> hw‘ was sold, he understood he was to fcv six acres on the beach. Original!™! had held nearly 100 acres at OnC. and he now had only two acres, v. was an old-age pensioner. Mr Pur van declared that the Crowr, had broached the old native several from 1923 to 1926. until he had sii away all his land. The further . obtained had been included in the o--transfer and. as one who bad b-t----associated for 23 years with ai Xative Land Court, he would Ten Vito say that such a transfer had nc been placed before the Xative Lai Purchase Hoard for confirmation. 0> other transfer was quite invalid in h, and others had been altered

Four other native signalorkm. an old-age pensioner, gave eviter* similar to that by Watene. His Honour said the only vaj* tf settling a dispute was to begin iron ' the first facts. That was shat a* Tokerau proposed to do in a* i ca<e. He intended to give as full & tecision as possible, and it would be for « the Chief Justice or for Parliament tv say how much further infonra.tire would be given.