Antiquarian Books & Maps
Friday, 3 - Tuesday, 14 December 2021
1891 Report of the Commission on Native Land Laws
Estimate $300 - $500
Realised: $260 plus premium
Lot Details
12 documents bound in soft card wrappers, xxxviii, 179, 95, 23, 11, 4, 71, 10, 7, 59, 15, 6 & 19 pages. including evidence from numerous hearings, minutes of meetings with natives, unfinished report by Mr Thomas Mackay relating to native land laws, census of the Maori population, claims of the natives to the Wairarapa Lakes & adjacent lands with a large folding map, Middle Island and South Island claims, with a list of native reserves in the South Island and an extensive list of "Natives and Half-Castes" who own land in the county of Westland and the Otakou Block, also in Canterbury, Otago & Stewart Island. Rare.
