WAIRARAPA NATIVES.
Report presented to the Assembly. MrH. S. Wardell, R.M., Wairarapa, to the Under Secretary, Native Department,
Wairarapa, 28th May, 1879 Sir—l have the honor to report that
the natives iu this district continue in the satisfactory state last reported,
In two or three instances a desire on the part of local bodies to construct roads through certain Native land, the title to which had not been adjudicated upon by the Native Land Court, ban given occasion for negotiates which I undertook at your request, and which in each case have led to satisfactory arrangements, The Natives resident in several villages having expressed a desire that one of number should be sworn in as special constable, I acceded to their request; and, the result of six months' experiment being satisfactory, I recomended, and you were good enough to approve, that six Natives should be appointed constables, me in each villages, at a salary of £5 a year land a suit of uniform. I believe that tliwse men will occasionally be an assistance to the regular police force of the district.—l have, &c, Herbert S, Wardell, Resident Magistrate,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 245, 22 August 1879, Page 2
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