ANOTHER SURVEY OBSTRUCTED BY MAORIS.
[By Teieqeaph.]
Auckland, Jan. 23.
Mr Stubbing, surveyor, returned to Cambridge last evening from Waotu, having been forcibly obstructed inlaying off the sub-division of Waotu South blocks by Whatuao and his Ngatingaronga followers. About four o’clock on Wednesday, Mr Stubbing started to run a line through disputed territory, when the natives, who, up to now, had been stationed at intervals over the block gathered in about him. On putting the first polo in the ground Ngatana, who appeared to be the chief inciter, ordered two women to go and pull it up, which they did. Mr Stubbing then fixed his instrument, when, at the command of Ngatana, two women came forward, and after some resistance on the part of the surveyors, took possession of it, and they still retain it. The survey party then returned to camp. Whatuawatu states that the only way Harry Simmonds can get possession of the land is by walking over his dead body. The natives were not armed while the above scene was being enacted. The matter has been reported to the Survey Department, and it is thought the obstructionists will be proceeded against in the local Court.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3374, 26 January 1884, Page 2
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198ANOTHER SURVEY OBSTRUCTED BY MAORIS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3374, 26 January 1884, Page 2
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