NATIVE LAND CASE.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Judgment was , given by. the. Appeal Court yesterday iv the case of E7V. Ridr diford v. R. C. Sim and others, an action m the Supreme Court, claiming a writ of mandamus directing the Ikaroa Land Board to approve of a lease. Defendant Board refused to approve of a lease on tlie grounds that the area wag based m excess, of that allowed by law. At the time of dthe application Riddiford held a lease ffi? 4203 acres. It wag for a new lease of Uiat land, but for a longer period, that application was made.v The point involved was whether the terms of section 26 of tlie Maori Lands Administration Act, I£oo, as amended by section 15 of the Act, 1903; prevented x a European who has no other land than that proposed to be acquired, from acquiring by way of lease under section 16 of the Act of 1905, more than 200 acres of land. The Court granted the mandamus asked for by plaintiffs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11056, 23 August 1907, Page 5
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