NATIVE LAND CLAIM.
WELLINGTON, October 29. Judges M‘Cormack and Rawson, of the Native Land Court, sitting as a special commission, have completed an investigation_ of the claim of certain South Island Natives to portion of a block of 1700 acres of land on ,tho west bank of the Waiau River, Southland. The commission eat in Invercargill and Dunedin, completing the evidence here to-day. Tho' Natives contend that the land in question, together with certain other lands known as the Tautuku block, was awarded by Judge Fenton in 1868, while tho Crown argues that the Tautuku award was in substitution for and not additional to the Waiau land. Judgment was reserved.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3216, 3 November 1915, Page 3
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110NATIVE LAND CLAIM. Otago Witness, Issue 3216, 3 November 1915, Page 3
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