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me te 1 o nga ra o Oketopa, ekore e turia i
taua ra, erangi motetahi atu rangi; kei tetahi atu Panuitanga te Whakaaturia ai,

a line running due East for twenty miles,
thence by a line to the mouth of the Apanui-
pare River, and thence following the Coast
line to the point of commencement at Wai-
tahanui.

Na Te Aitana,

Kai tuhituhi.

Kooti whakawa mo nga whenua kua tangohia,
Akarana, 15th Hepetema, 1866.

NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS by the “New Zealand Settlements, Amendment and Con-
tinuance Act, 1865,” it is enacted that instead of the periods of six months and eighteen months prescribed by the seventh section of the “New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,” for preferring claims to compensation, the period for such purpose shall be a period not less than three months nor more than six months, to be prescribed by the Compensation Court in each case, and due notice of such period for preferring claims shall be given by direction of the Court, by advertisement in public newspapers, or otherwise by public notice in the Maori and English language.

And whereas by an Order in Council made by His Excellency the Governor in Council, at Wellington, on the 1st day of September, 1866, it was ordered that from the date thereof the district, the boundaries whereof are defined in the schedule hereto, should be a district within the provisions of the said “New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,” and should be designated by name of the Bay of Plenty District, and the lands within the said District were thereby reserved and taken for the purposes of settlements, and it was declared that all such lands were required for the purposes of the said lastmentioned Act, and were subject to the provisions thereof from the date of the said Order in Council now in recital. Now, by the direction of the Compensation Court it is hereby notified that the period for preferring claims to compensation on account of the taking as aforesaid of the said block of land has been prescribed by the Court to be three months from the said 1st day of September.

Dated at Auckland this fifteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty six.

Robert H. Eaton,
Clerk of the Court.

SCHEDULE, BAY OF PLENTY DISTRICT.

All that land bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Waitahanui River, Bay of Plenty, and running due South for a distance of twenty miles, thence to the summit of (Mount Edgecombe) Pukeki, thence by a straight line in an easterly direction to a point eleven miles due South from the entrance to the Ohiwa harbour, thence by a line running due East for

PANUITANGA.

KO te mena, i te Ture (New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863), i te 7 o nga ra nga marama hei tukunga mai mo nga pukapuka whakawa atu whenua i nga tangata e pa ana ki nga whenua kua riro i te Kawanatanga te tango. Na i te mahinga houtanga o taua Ture i te tau 1865, kua whakamanaia aua taua, a kua kiia ko te takiwa mo te tukunga mai o nga pukapuka pera, kia kaua e hoki iho i te toru marama, kia kaua e neke ake i te ono marama, ma te Kooti e whakarite te takiwa hei tukunga mai mo aua pukapuka nei. Ko te tikanga he panui atu ki nga Nupepa, he panui ki te Ao Maori, kia rongo ai te katoa.

Na, i te Runanga o te Kawanatanga i noho a Runanga ki Poneke i te 1 o nga ra o Hepetema, 1866, i kiia, ko te Takiwa whenua o mua nei ona rohe i te Pukapuka e tapiri nei, me waiho hei Takiwa mo nga tikanga o te Ture nei (“New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863”) ko te ra e timata ai, ko taua ra 1 o nga ra o Hepetema 1866, ka huaina tona ingoa ko te Takiwa o te Bay of Plenty, ko nga whenua katoa o roto i taua Takiwa i rahuitia, i tangohia kia whakanohoia ki te Pakeha, a i kiia hoki ko aua whenua katoa i rite hei mahinga mo nga tikanga o taua Ture, a mana katoa ona tikanga i runga i te timatanga mai i te ra i puta ai taua Ki Runanga kua whakahuatia ake nei.

Na, ko tenei, ka whakahauatia nei e te Kooti Whakawa Whenua te takiwa hei tukunga mai mo nga pukapuka tono utu mo te tangohanga o taua whenua, kia toru nga marama, ka timata mai i taua ra ano, te 1 o nga ra o Hepetema, 1866.

I tuhia i te 15 o nga ra o Hepetema, 1866.

Na Te Aitana,

Kai tuhituhi.

PUKAPUKA TAPUHI, TE TAKIWA O TE BAY OF PLENTY.

Ko taua whenua katoa, ka timata te rohe ki te wahapu o te Awa o Waitahuna, ka rere whaka te Tonga, rua tekau maero, ka maro atu i reira tae noa ki te timu o Putauaki, ka rere whakate Rawhiti, kotahi te kau maero, whaka te Tonga o te Puaha o te wahapu o Ohiwa, ka rere i reira whaka te Rawhiti rua tekau maero, ka rere i reira ki te puaha o te Awa o Araparapa, ka haere i te tahataha moana ki te timatanga o te rohe, ki te wahapu o te Awa o Waitahuna.