SECOND EDITION. DAMAGE ALLEGED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16772, 11 October 1928, Page 8

SECOND EDITION. DAMAGE ALLEGED

LAKE TAUPO SALE MAORI APPEALS TO COURT The Knl] ( mii t was engaged on Monday in Wellington in hearing an originating summons brought, by Hoani do Ifcuhou against 1 lit*. Crown. Mr. E. H. Sortheron. appeared for tho plaintiff; and Ah. A. i-.i’i. ilie Solicitor-General, for the defendant. The general, facts which led to the issue of thoe summons arc that in 1925 .n agreement was entered into between Ihe Prime Minister, acting on behalf ■if the Government, and the Ngati Tewtiaretoa irilie. which dwells around tiie of Lake Tan [to, that the. bed (if f.ake Tnup'i and the rivers (lowing into the lake, should be vested in the Crown, and certain compensation paid to the tribe. Tips was in effect a surrender of the communal fishing rights previously held by the tribe. Iho plaintiff, who is one of the private owners having land bordering on the Tnngariro River, which flows into the lake, alleges (hat- he has suffered damage by the taking of the river by (hder-in-Oouncil in pursuance of the agreement, ami seeks to ascertain whether compensation can be claimed by him under the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1926, for damage alleged to have been suffered by him. Another point of interest, raised in the summons is whether, in view of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, the natives could validly enter into a sale of these fishing rights to the Crown.