RETURN OF WAIKATO LANDS TO NATIVES.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 674, 14 September 1876, Page 3

RETURN OF WAIKATO LANDS TO NATIVES.

Sir, — A. short time ago, yon laid that you were enquiring about the resettlemeat of nativei near Ngaruawahia. Perhaps, the following letter from the Native Department may aiaiat you and and the pablio to form an opinion on the •uhjsct : — "Sir, — I hare the honor to acknow. leitp tin receipt of your lattler of the 19 oh insfc. I have, a'so, received one from Mr Campbell, enoloaing yonra of the 14th to him, on the game subject, respect* io<? the, land surveyed by him oa the W*ipa. I beg to inform yon that the land it a burial ground, and, that lots 21 to 42 and 44 to 63, eaoh inelnsive, 293 acres 3 roods and 34 perches, Horotiu, in which the burial ground is included, were given by Mr Maokay, when Crown Agent, in 1867, to Takers te Rau, from Takerei te Rao, being an ex-rebel, a Crown Giant will not be iwued. Lot 46, referred to in yonr letter as occupied by tbo Public round, upon the authority of 1h) Honourable Dr Pollen, is one of these lots, ani was probably a temporary and . c mditional permission. Ido not see th <t thsre caa b^ any difficulty with regard to <the Native* fencing:, if th"ir line if r»a<i i\t d^ued,— l liavo the honor to br,

c ir, your nbtdiVnt aervaut, (signed) C. Marshal), District Officer. "Te Roat\ 9:u Ssptenber, 187 C "The Chairman Newcastle District " Board, Te Hoard, Ng»rn»w»hu." "lim»giuo that f»Were is uot an tart be), but a rebel, and as such unable to hold land, or, to authorise oth*ra to occupy i'. — Yonr obedt lervant, Thomas WiUon. Chairnii), j^ewcastlo Dmtriot Bjard "