Parliamentary Papers.

Wananga, Volume 4, Issue 33, 25 August 1877, Page 334

Parliamentary Papers.

MR. WILSON, THE EX-NATIVE LAND PURCHASER'S PETITION.

The following is the petition of Mr. Wilson, the late Land Purchase Commissioner of Poverty Bay, presented to the House on Tuesday:-"That, at the request of the Government your petitioner relinquished in exchange a n nun.erative er.-agem. Nt whi, tlu-m for p-rmanent°em-y nient. That \our petitioner having no personal end gam. hut much to lose, as the event lias proved, did i" iM-u.-iitly uphold as .1 Laml Purchas Officer, the just the public to ns lands on tne East Coast against U .'' ] " l l ' l >peculators who .- lioj.siy encroached upon the >,an " s - a '"' :l -r° •'igaiust the administration of certain and funeltonancs i.y wl,op» the law was worked a manner to fa.-ihur- and protect the said speculators i..a -iinig. an.t io i.iud.-rn.g your petitioner in the Ins isi :lii; r■ st duty to the public. That your .yt de-im-d It las wuty v„ry reluctantly, to report !■ • V. .! in ~ i \ 0 ' Vi' sa " • -ilit• i-.-i and functionaries to .!' 'itionei was moreover > i.in;.■ i in inr.>: in the Government of ' : V :! ;i ! "S P'lfti.d proceedings and transactions V' . N . ;,r:v - Court judicially, whereby sp-at ors were profitted, and the 1 V ■ va:,; " lu:u, . v ' bousands of pounds-"'il-mits if he erred at all in ["V* ;on, he erred in not reporting ' !" s _; i,v n5 "-' -f.-atures in the conduct .'Vt..'- pu.-lie interest, your petitioner's • and the native's sense of "'eiv >,■!■!,.i:>!y and injuriously affected. P'-"t">!'. r Itirther deemed it his duty to report X iv publication by a Judge of the , , L and mischievous ad-"j'-uts nv wii: C h the >aid .Judire, unmindful of the I n-'-hV"' 1 "" , hnn ". rL ' uS Uieus.uids of acres against the p .oae and against your pet,tioner, before the titles to tn., said lands had been tried in his Court and before , tn. ii claims had been even called in his Court; and your : j e - Ul( ;r u ' r that the said judge had unfitted ; .nuse,f, oy the gratuitous publication of that advertiseI "• : lt : to l a^J,, . dlca lH - ;n y of the numerous claims j .ln-iitiono'j iii >: That, tor upholding the rights of the I "gainst the above mentioned speculators and for j ma -wing the aforesaid reports and communication to the Wemment in the interest of the public, and as your j Peciouer verily believes and humbly submits in peri -oimonce of his duty, your petitioner unhappily incurred

the displeasure of the Government. That your petitioner was therefore unjustly deprived of his position without cause by the Hon. Mr. Onnond, on behalf of the Native Minister, Dr. Pollen, to his very great injury pecuniarily, and exposing his reputation to injury and abrupt dismissal. That such dismissal was wrongful, and a breach of the engagement made between the Government and vour petitioner. That the alleged ground of youa petitioner's dismissal was upon the report of a certain Royal Commission. That your petitioner has never seen the said report, nor had an opportunity in respect to the same to indicate himself in any way. That the Commission, in its constitution, was not independent of the Gouernment, and proved itself most partial and unfair in its mode of conducting the inquiry. The petition concludes by a prayer for an inquiry.— Daily Telegraph, August 4.