NATIVE FISHING RIGHTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 9

NATIVE FISHING RIGHTS.

AX APPEAL CASE. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) 'WEL'LEvGTOX, ihis day. The Full Court, comprising the. Chief Justice, Mr. Jiusticc EdwarUts. aD d -injustice Coope r is pnjr.iged hearing argument in the case Waipiipakura versus Beropton i Collector of Customs at Kew Plymouthi. The appeal is Iroui the decision of Mr. Crooke. fvJl. at Waitara. The claim in tilv> Magistrate's Court was 'for £10 for -by hi* agents wrongfulJy depriring plaintiff nf t-hc and poeeesEion of thrp.e white-bait n-ets, wliicli were seized by the OustOTIS a-utiorities upon the frroun<l that .Tpnellant. had been ising them unia-wfuHr. in breach of | clause .3 of rejruhitions undCT the Fisheries Jet. ions. Applicant claimed that sue Fas a Maori fishing right. an*l th.it i=ucti ri-2ht A\tis savod fr<Tm operation of the Fisheries Act. tratp heH lie JkiJ nn jurmdiction to determine tiie existence or validity of native iVhJnjz rin-his. and that appellant must ?o in the Xativc band Court to Im> her rijrhts determined before saiinc in the Magistrate's Court. Ftotti t'liis decision the present appeal i- trough:. ■Argument is procei'<l ; n2.