OWNERSHIP OF BED OF RIVER
♦- — DECISION OF NATIVE APPELLATE COURT
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. December 20.. An appeal by the Crown from a provisional or preliminary determination of the Native Land Court given at Wanganui on September 20, 1939, on an application under part iv of the Native Land Act 1931. by certain natives for an investigation of the title to the bed of the Wanganui river from the tidal limit at Raorikia to its junction with the Whakapapa river, has been dismissed by the Native Appellate Court, which consists of the six judges of the Native Land Court. _ „ The Court was invited by Mr D. G.. B. Morison, of Wellington, counsel for the applicants, to state, as a preliminary step towards the ascertaining of the individual ownership, whether or not at the time of the Treaty of Waitangi the bed of the river was owned by the natives according to native customs. Mr J. Prendeville appeared for the Crown. A reserved judgment was delivered by the Appellate Court in Wellington to-day. The six judges concurred in the decision reached.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24446, 21 December 1944, Page 6
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