MAORI WAR MEMORIES.
PLUNDERING AT PARIHAKA.
NATIVES GIVE EVIDENCE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOLTH, Thursdav.
The Royal Commission inquiring into the petitions of the natives with regard to the alleged wrongful confiscation of lands after the Maori War, concluded its sitting at Waitara to-day, and will resume at Wellington on Wednesday. Further evidence was given by natives to-day regarding the alleged plundering of Parihaka village by the British soldiers when Te Whiti was arrested. They said the soldiers pulled houses down, ruined crops, carried away valuable goods and cattle, and outraged native women.
Evidence was also heard on a number of private petitions, while it va. also alleged that the Government had not kept its promise to give land'to natives on their return from exile on the Chathams. It was said that little land was given and a number of the Maoris were still landless.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1927, Page 11
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