THE APPEAL COURT.
(Per United Prkss Association.)
WELLINGTON, July 29.
Tho cases of Teem' Rauginui and others v. the Assets Company began to-day in the Appeal Court. In these the title of _t?hc company to block Rangatira. No. 2 is attacked. It contains 4670 acres, and is valued nt £4 per acre. A memorial of. ownerhtip was issued in 1375, Kinross and Graham, of Gisboriio, becoming lessees.- They afterwards shares from a ■ number of Natives, and their rights ultimately became vested in the company. Tho plaintiffs now allege that the transfers from the Natives
were never approved by the Native Land Court; that the company could' not obtain a- title by Ihe method of 'registration employed; and (hat the company's title oil these grounds should be cancelled. ■
Mr llees, for plaintiffs, contended that tho wholo tho transactions on which the company s title were ba?ed wero void and . of no eil'ect. Mr Bell, on behalf of the Assets Company, urged that, transfers ro the company being certified to by tho lu'o.uda Prevention Commissioner, ihe defendants boeaine entitled to registration under the Land Act. It was a very difficult 'question of law, and impossible to say it was fraud on the part of the company to register -transfer as it had done. Argument was unfinished when the court rose. ' '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12418, 30 July 1902, Page 5
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