A BAnkrupt NATIVE'S Land.
-• |BT TKLEOBAPU. — P.ISSS ASSOCIATION 1 Napier, 26th June. In re Albert Karaitiana, bankrupt, Mr. Humphries, representing the Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, applied in the Supreme Court in Chambers to-day for advioe as to whether he is to hold as assets in the bankruptcy lands which the native himself waa by the Native Land Aot of 1894 prevented from dealing with except in the manner provided for by that Act. His Honour the Chief Justice explained the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1894, and stated that it was bis orinion that the iobtor'a lands did pot come within the exemption contained in section 117 of the Act. tie thought, however, that the creditors were entitled to such moneys as were paid to the Public Trustee in trust for the debtor, and that the Offioial Assignee should lake steps to give notice to the Land Board and the Pnblio Trustee of their claim.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 150, 27 June 1895, Page 4
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156A BAnkrupt NATIVE'S Land. Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 150, 27 June 1895, Page 4
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