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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2027, 13 August 1920, Page 6

A Rotorna message says the Ngatiwhakane tribe hnß telegraphed to thg lion. A. T. Ngata requesting him to \iso every endeavour to modify the restrictions imposed by the King George Hospital authorities on the public entering Pukeroa Reserve, in which the hospital is situated. They point out the reserve was a grant to posterity l>y their elders in 1880, and that when the hospital was built the Ngatiwhakane signed a. protest, but abandoned it oa an appeal to their loyalty and an assuraneo that the conditions would not last for ever. Many of their dead Ho iii the reserve, and they consider the authorities' action a wanton,'.harsh, and unnecessary invasion of publifc right*-