ELEVEN WEEKS.
HEARING OF LAND CLAIMS.
TE ARABOA TOWNSHIP.
156 SEPARATE JUDGMENTS READ. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE, this day. The hearing of Te Araroa township case by the Native Land Court created a new record for prolonged sittings. The Court sat continuously for eleven weeks, the hearing concluding with the reading of 156 different judgments, which took a whole day. The case concerned the last uninvestigated block on the East Coast, and as a considerable sum in rentals had accumulated since the township was settled 30 years ago, every Maori who could produce evidence of an ancestral claim to the property was represented. The Court had to deal with the claims of 36 different groups. The general effect of the judgment is to admit the title of resident claimants and to refuse the claims of those resident elsewhere.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 9
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138ELEVEN WEEKS. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 212, 8 September 1927, Page 9
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