The Te Akau Block.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIII, Issue 3539, 25 July 1907, Page 2

The Te Akau Block.

MATTER BEFORE APPEAL COURT. (ByTelegraph—Press Association). Wellington, Last Night. The Appeal Court is hearing the Te Akau Block case, affecting 95,000 acres, between Port Waikato and Raglan. It was confiscated in war time, and this portion returned to the legal owners of the Tainui and Ngatitihunga tribes. The former were awarded 15,000 acres, against which they protested, and the matter has repeatedly been before the Courts and Commissions. On the last occasion before the Native Appellate Court in Febeuaiy of this year this award was confirmed, and the Tainuis again appeal on the ground of bias on the part of Judge Brown, and that the question of native customary title could not be taken into consideration, w'hile the others contend that the Supreme Court’s power to interfere with the Appellate Court was taken away by the Act of 1895. Wellington, This Day. In the Te Akau block case, Mr Morrison, on behalf of the plaintiffs, showed cause why the Supreme Court’s power to prohibit the native appellate was not taken away by the Act of 1895. He contended that, in spite of sections therein, where the court manifestly had extended its powers, the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to prohibit was not taken away.