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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19112, 22 September 1927, Page 8

An indication of the problems Pre - sented to the Native Land Court at, recent Gisborne sittings in deternnnnv tho titles of pwnership of native Jaiia , on which tho To Araroa township ' now established was afforded by tn . statement of a woman witness that 0» ancestor, resident near Gisborne, n#®- ; joined tho natives of Matakaoa for to . purpose of a, raid on another tribe, ana had stuck an implement into the to} 1 in a certain part of the block, tnw action being the basis of tho woman claim. Countering this declaration) another party declared that tho visW> had not claimed the land, since he ; an ally and not a victorious onenv> and that all lie had done was to grasshopper with a blow of his Bticfw Both sides admitted that some sort . - a blow hnd been struck, a remarkaol feature of'the caso being the comparativo fidelity with which the tradition . concerning tho block had boon han'ie down. ; j 1