NATIVE APPELATE COURT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 25 February 1907, Page 2

NATIVE APPELATE COURT

Per Press Association. ~„ ~. Wellington, February 23. il.eUiet Justice, Mr Jackson Paint u, and Judges Jones and Sims deliver CV,„i-Vi S, T '"" thc NaMvu A DPeUU ■ii to-day on special eases set down » "«I«'n™ into six block- of land in immediate vicinity of Wuiron, reopened tor inquiry by legislation passed last sess.on. The question al Luc " ho Court to decide was whether rf ants issued „, lm , or (| l( . se sev , '»l«cks were grants i„ favor of th(! , sons .-„ whom eerlilieates were issued ''J' the Maoris Laud four, that year, i>r whether these grantees were simi.lv for fhemJelvcs or others mem Honed mi the ccitilicnto. The Court ,'" "." I(!s, t«t'<'" in concurring with those judges of tne Court who have declared that there was a trust ill each ol these eases and that the nominal '•wners were intended to hold as tinstees. I hi' judgment concluded; "Were lye compelled to hold otherwise, the Native Land Court, which is suppose,! Lo protect the native owners, yvonld >e the means „f l!oi „ g (]u , ma mnau in injustice." The Court sits here igain on the 11th of March to decide udividual cases.