A VALUABLE MAORI ESTATE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1479, 29 June 1912, Page 4

A VALUABLE MAORI ESTATE.

SAID TO BE WOETH £80,000. A case of unusual interest was befori tho Native Land Court, presided over bw Mr. Justice Gilfcdder. yesterday afternoon,! touching the estate of Broiii To Awe Awe.j well known iu. tho Manawatu as tho siw ter of Peeti To Awe Awe, wlio rendered 1 tho Crown valuable assistauco during' thd Maori war, The land is situated at Hukanui, near ■ Pahiataia. A numerous Bar was engaged, Mr. C. 11. Troadwell, with him Mr. Hankins, of Palmerstott North, appeared for Eretti To Awo Aw©; Mi-. Morisou, with him Mr. Blair, lor Kiniri Puke; and Mr. P. L, Baldwin ior> William Moffalt, respectively daughter! and grandson of Ereui To Awo Awe. # Tho Native woman owning this largxf estate was said to b» under physical disability to manage her affairs, throusn blindness, caused ,by cataract, and tlifl question at issue was the appointment ol trustees to manage her estate. Mr. n&nhiiw, it appeared, had acted for her for many, years before sho had lost, her Eight, and knew nil her business at" fairs, and had recently conducted to A successful issue a sale of seine part of (ho estate in comparatively e-mail areaa for some *£11,700. „ , Eveniuallv Mr. Hankins and Mr. WW*, tar lhitherfurd, of Pillmerstou Aoi'th* we.ro appointed trustees. J Tho purchasers of the land at Hukanttr will doubtless now have their coil tracts for the purchase of tho part of the estate .confirmed without further delay, as part of tho- arrangement arrived at was that •'all* parties, should consent to confirms Mion'by' tho Ikaroa District Maori Lmil Jioard'forthwHh.