MAORI FISHING RIGHTS.
COURT' OF' APPEAL CASE.
[BY TELEGRAM.— association.] \ Wellington*, Thursday. The Court of Appeal, comprising Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Edwards, and Mr. Justice Cooper, today heard legal argument in the case Waip'apakura versus Hempton, Collector of Customs at New Plymouth. The appeal was from the decision of Mr. Crooko, S.M., at Waitara. The claim in the Magistrate's Court was for £10 for damages in connection with the seizure by the Customs authorities of three whitebait nets, upon the. ground that the appellant had been using them unlawfully under the Fisheries Act, 1908. The applicant claimed that she was exercising a Maori fishing right, and that such right was saved from operation of the Fisheries Act.
The magistrate held that he had no jurisdiction to determine tho eiistenco or validity of native fishing rights, and that the appellant - must go to the Native Land Court to ' have her rights determined before., suing in the Magistrate's Court. From this decision the present appeal is brought.
Decision was reserved.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15657, 10 July 1914, Page 8
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