079-084
Thursday April 17th 1873
Foxton
Place – the same Present – John Rogan Esquire – Judge Hemi Tautari, Hare Wirikake – Assessors
Manawatu Kukutauaki No. 2
Kaihimu
Henare Herekau said – we have not completed our arrangements respecting the block of 800 acres and we wish further time.
Adjourned until arrangements are completed
Tamihana Rauparaha applied that the claims to land on the other sides of Waiwiri may not be investigated.
The court informed Tamihana that his application could not be entertained with a affecting the land for which claims from other persons were before it.
Tuwhakatupua No. 1
Claim read – boundaries shown on large plan.
Tuwhakatupua No. 2
Claim read – boundaries shown on large plan.
Rangihiwinui applied that these two claims be adjourned to a future sitting of the court.
Tuwhakatupua 1 & 2 adjourned.
Manawatu Kukutauaki No. 2 F
Hoani Taipua applied that the name of Pitihera Kiharoa be struck out of the order and the name Wirihana Ahuta be inserted instead.
Henare Te Herekau said – we have all agreed to this alteration.
Application granted.
Horowhenua
Mr. Cash made application to have John Charles Jury’s being the name by which he was disputing inserted in the order instead of his Maori name which has appeared.
Application granted.
Wairarawa
Roera Hukiki’s application for a certificate read.
Totara
Roera Hukiki’s application for a certificate of title read.
Makomakonui
Akapita Te Tewe’s application for a certificate read.
Ohau
Hema Te Ao’s application for a certificate read.
Waopukatea
Hapi Te Rangi Te Whata’s application for a certificate read.
Wahaotemarangai
Moroati Kiharoa’s application for a certificate read.
Ngakaroro
Hapi Te Rangi Te Whata’s application for a certificate read.
Waikawa
Reweti put in tracing of his block and a list of names in whose favor he asked a certificate of title for Ngati Wehiwehi.
Objectors challenged.
Court decided to order a tribal certificate to Ngati Wehiwehi.
Adjourned till tomorrow.
Pukehou
James Ransfield said – I wish the court to issue a certificate for this land in favor of Ngati Kapu – names of persons read.
Objectors challenged.
Hoani Taipua, Hema Te Ao, Rena Wharepokaro, Kooro Te One, Moroati Te Kiharoa, Ria Henare Metapare, Himiona, Ropata Te Ao and others objected.
James Ransfield – sworn
I belong to Ngati Hapua and live at Otaki.
I claim this land from constant occupation up to this time. I have houses on this land – they are now standing. I have cultivation at Paruau. It is nobody else’s. Another is at Pukehou where a house now stands. Another cultivation at Paikai on the Ngati Wehiwehi boundary. Another is at Te Ahiarauikahi inland side of Pukehou. The last names is not a cultivation but a place where we snared birds. A cultivation of mine is at Piritaha, Moutere is another, Waimangu is another.
The piece towards the sea has been leased to Bishop Hadfield to renew the money £40 per annum. Nobody else has any claim to the land but Ngati Kapu. They are the only people who cultivate there.
We have been in occupation of this land for 30 years ever since. This is the portion, my shop – settled on when Ngati Raukawa came. I never heard any dispute between Hoani’s side and my parents. The dispute to send the survey.
Case of claimants
Hoani Taipua – sworn
I am a Ngati Pare and live at Otaki.
I wish to call another witness to sustain the counter claimant.
Rinao Wharepakaru – sworn
I am a Ngatikauhata and live at Otaki.
This piece of land is Ngati Kauwhata’s and Ngati Pare’s. I divided this piece and put the people in possession. I killed the original Muaupoko proprietors. I caught 2 women and a child. Uku was one of the women. She was a slave of Rangihaeata. I do not know the name of the other woman. Rangihiahia ran away and escaped, Ihaka also.
I then got all this land. The land was then divided from the mountain to Maramakopai. 2 hapu’s. Ngati Kauwhata and Ngati Pare cut up this land. I have not seen any other hapu. Ngati Kapu cultivation is outside of Pukekaraka. I did not see the Mateawa hapu. Ngati Te Horu are not interested there.
At a later, Hoani Pokai asked for some land at Pareauku. We agreed to give them the land for 2 cows. The boundaries of this piece were agreed upon. It is only since then that Ngati Kapu had any claim. They had no fight previously. These are the places referred to by James Ransfield and there rights to since the purchase. Hoani Pokai asked leave to go and catch pigs on the mountain. He got leave to kill birds but had no “mana”.
They had no claim on the mountain side of Pareuku. My evidence relates to Pukehou below to Waitawa is Ngati Kapu’s. Waimangunu is also Ngati Kapu’s. Ahiarangikahewi – this legality of a fire there confers no title to the land. The entire cleanup here are those of Ngati Kauwhata’s at Waitohu. Ngati Kauwhata and Ngati Pare began to clean on this land shortly after Haowhenua. I do not claim Waitawa nor Te Ouiou – Waimangu.
I claim Pukehou.
Court adjourned until tomorrow at 10 am.
