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23. How far up the Waihou does the tide go?—The Waihou is tidal as far as Maugaiti. The river is tidal, but it is not noticeable on account of the current. 24 Mr Clendon.] Did you not hear from your friends in the year 1895 that there was a notice in the local papers stating that this river would be proclaimed a sludge-channel I—l did not hear that. ' , . , . . 25. Does not the road from your kainga to Kerepehi run along the bank ot the river (— les that is, the old road. . ~ , „ 26. Is not that road under water from the end of May until about the beginning of October I Yes. 27 This lagoon you have told us about runs north and south?— Yes. 28 Is there not a little stream coming down and feeding that lagoon from the southward, parallel to the Waihou River?— Yes, but it runs into another lagoon in the tea-tree. 29 And that lagoon overflows and fills this lagoon ?—Yes. 30 The Chairman.] What is the height of the high land on which you camp between Awaiti on the west and Waihou on the east?— About 5 ft. or 6ft. or more. It had a width ot about a mile, and is about three miles long. 31 Is there a low place at the south end of it?— Yes, at Maugaiti. 32. What is the height of that low-lying land at Maugaiti ?—ln some places it may be o it. and in other places less above the water-level. _ 33 Mr Clendon.] Were you at Awaiti on the 14th of this month/— Yes. U. Did you notice two streams of water at the flax-mill overflowing from the Waihou in the dir^rThere\ a i is\ ? i7oHier stream overflowing on the Waihou between there and the Junction, was there? There was another stream, Tuawhati. . 36 Mr Mueller.] Have you at any time seen the water from the Waihou overflowing toward V w aiti at a point above Tirohia where there is a bit of a cutting on the road /-Yes, I have seen that drain overflowing, but that water does not reach Awaiti. 37. Where does it go to?— That water perhaps goes over towards Waitoa. James Mackat examined. (No. 35.) 1. Mr. Mueller.] You have been in this district for how many years (-1 have known this district since January, 1864. 2 You have heard the evidence given by Haora and Paora as regards ihe Native race/-res. 3 Is there anything you wish to add to that as regards the Native race?-lhey did not describe the losses that other Natives besides themselves have sustained. 4 Cayou simply state that you know of your own knowledge that the other Natives have sustained \oJZ-Zl very great Lses, especially the Natives close to here on the other side of the Tl's there anything further you wish to add as regards the Native race'/-About the boundary £*££= Stfg La. , „.„„,, --*•-& £TM for the goldfields vvouhl open ,1 he rest, anQiney • j Government would be those that the only lands winch would be used « settlements on the banks of t Cl Oht^uSVJ3de t the the goldfields ceded. ..cause i, only came to Maokaypurposes was never mentioned to the v i f N, , ,I 0, , arv 1 put a clause in that the Crown should have the right to use the 0| myself as well as the Nat. . c « CommisSu because 1 have taken a great interest in the '-lo I ' Wha, is your knowledge as regards %»^^ __So far as my family is concerned they have not *\£^ t of the Waihou, because tti?X^f^^^* eAt - and stii "" there until they *"' jLSfi and falf down into the water. We lost seven crews flood n . The Chairman.] Is that flood dueto the sil «toM*£j-JJ ~,„ flood from the sill , 0 f the Waihou is caused by the waters th a.n > a^ravated by the silt. We , UliC t,o„ up to is II has narrowed the river and SStX S*£ it took two days of solid rain to make a flood. now we get a flood in six hours.