✨ Native Land Purchase Ordinance
THE
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF HAWKE'S BAY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
T. H. FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.
VOL. 1.] MONDAY, NOV. 26, 1860. [No. 31.
Superintendent's Office,
Napier, Nov. 22, 1860.
THE following correspondence and documents relating to the enforcement of the Native Land Purchase Ordinance, are published for general information.
T. H. FITZGERALD,
Superintendent.
59—367.
Superintendent's Office,
Napier, Dec. 12, 1859.
SIR,—I have the honor to request that you will bring under the notice of His Excellency the Governor the necessity that exists for strictly putting in force all the provisions of the Native Land Purchase Ordinance, which, in several cases that could be readily proved, I believe, seems to be now systematically disregarded; and which, I have no doubt, will tend very much to throw serious obstacles in the way of further purchases from the natives in this Province, if it be not stringently enforced in future whenever a violation of the law can be shewn. The cases where transgressions of the law can be proved are principally, I think, confined to persons owning freehold adjacent to native property; and when, as they allege, to save disputes, they agree to pay them for the grass consumed by their sheep or cattle crossing the boundaries; but it must be evident, that persons so situated should take as much care to prevent their sheep or cattle straying off their own freehold or run, as they would be obliged to take if their neighbour had been a freeholder or runholder like themselves, instead of a native Chief; and by such payments they in reality do as much harm as if a stranger
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Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1860, No 31
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🪶 Publication of correspondence regarding Native Land Purchase Ordinance
🪶 Māori Affairs22 November 1860
Native Land Purchase Ordinance, Correspondence, Napier
- T. H. Fitzgerald, Superintendent
🪶 Correspondence regarding enforcement of Native Land Purchase Ordinance
🪶 Māori Affairs12 December 1859
Native Land Purchase Ordinance, Land disputes, Native property, Livestock
- T. H. Fitzgerald, Superintendent