Hokio v Aotea Maori Land Board - [1918] NZLR 289

Native Land — Reserves — West Coast Settlement Reserves — Partition — Whether Land thereby freed from Restrictions on Alienation — Whether Mortgage of such Land requires Confirmation — Jurisdiction and Procedure of Maori Land Board — Principles on which Court will interfere — Declaratory Judgment — Scope of Procedure — West Coast Settlement Reerves Act, 1892, ss 4, 5, 6 — West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment Act, 1913, s 15 — Native Land Act, 1909, as 2, 207, 217, 220, 439 — Declaratory Judgments Act, 1908.