A VALUABLE MAORI ESTATE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9228, 29 June 1912, Page 5

A VALUABLE MAORI ESTATE.

SAID TO BE WOJITH £30,000 A casi> of unusual interest was betoie the Native Land Couit, piesided over | by Mr Justice Gilieddei, at AVellrngton ' yesteiday afternoon, touching the es- ' tate ol Eieni Te Awe Awe, well known , in the'Manawdtu as the sistei of Peeti , Tc Awe Awe, who lendeied the Crown < valuable assistance dining the Maon ndi. Hie land is wtuAted at Hukanui, near Pahwtua. A numcious Bai was , engaged. Mi C H Tieadwell, with I him Mi Hankms, ot Palmerston Noith, appealed foi Eieni ffe Ayva Awe, Mi Morison, with him Mi Blair, foi Emm Puke; and Mi P L Baldwin tor William Moffdtt, lespectively daughter ami giaiidson of Eieni Te Awe Awe The nativo woman owning this laigo estate "was said to be under physical | disability to manage hei affaiis, tlnough blindness, caused by cataiact, and the question at'issue was the appointment ot trustees to manage her estate Mr Hpkms, it appealed, had acted foi hei tov many yeais betoie bho had lost hei sight, and kiiew all hei bnsine&s a&ans, and had lecently conducted to a successful issuo a sule ot some pait of tho estate in comnaiatively small aieas for some £11,700 Eventually Mr Hankms and Mr Walter Rutheriuul, ot Pahneiston Noith, weie appointed tiustees The jninhitteis ol the land at Hukanui Avill' doubtless now have their contracts toi tile pin phase oi the part ot the estate connimed without fmther delay, as p'ait ot the auangement aiuved ot was that all paities should consent to confinnation bv the Ikaioa Distnct Maori Laud Boaid foithwith