Crown Land Claims Decisions




DISTRICT. No. of Report. No. of Claim. NAME OF CLAIMANT. COMMISSIONER’S DECISION.
Wanganui. 70 508 John Garner. Entitled to Crown Grants of the Town Sections numbered 30, 40, 12, 53, 54 and 38 in the Town of Petre. Also of seven acres, more or less, part of the Country Section 16, right bank of the River Wanganui. Also to 89 acres, more or less, part of Country Section 14 right bank of the Wanganui River. Also to 133 acres, more or less, part of Country Sections 26 and 27 Left Bank of the River Wanganui. Subject as to the issue of such Grants to a direction of the Commissioner.

| Wai-nui-O-Mata. | 71 | 52, 53 and 54 | Richard Prowse the elder and Rich. Prowse the younger and William Prowse. | Not Entitled to Grants, the person who entered into the agreement with the claimants for the sale of the land claimed not being entitled to it, nor to the land order under which the sale was pretended to be made, and the land claimed having reverted to the Crown.

| Kaiwarra and Wellington. | 72 | 41 | Robert Hart Pike. | Entitled to Crown Grants of Seventeen Acres or thereabouts, part of the Country Section No. 6 in the Kaiwarra district. And also part of the Town Acre No. 70, in the Town of Wellington, the boundaries of which said pieces of land will be defined by the Commissioner.

| Wellington and Porirua. | 73 | 40 | William Blandford Burgess. | Entitled to Crown Grants of the Town Acre No. 479, in the Town of Wellington. Also One hundred Acres being the Country Section No. 36 in the Porirua District.

| Lower Hutt. | 74 | 13 | Thomas Masen. | Entitled to a Crown Grant of One hundred Acres or thereabouts, being the Country Section No. 52, in the Lower Hutt District. Subject as to the issue of such Grant to a direction of the Commissioner.

| Wellington. | 75 | 38 | John Dorset and Nathaniel Levin. | Entitled to a Crown Grant for One Acre more or less, being the Town Acre No. 213 in the Town of Wellington, save and except such portion thereof as is comprised within the limits of the Native Reserve of Te Aro Pa, and subject as to the issue of such Grant to a direction of the Commissioner.

| Lower Hutt. | 76 | 70 | David Galloway. | Entitled to Crown Grants for Ten Acres being part of the Section No. 80 in the district of the Lower Hutt. Also Fifteen Acres adjoining Section No. 109, the boundaries to be defined by the Commissioner.

| Tukapu. | 77 | 10 | Henry Boyton. | Entitled to a Crown Grant for One hundred Acres being the Country Section No. 20 in the Tukapu District.

| Lower Hutt. | 78 | 69 | David M’Ewen. | Entitled to Crown Grants for ten Acres, being part of the Section No. 80 in the district of the Lower Hutt. Also, Fifteen Acres adjoining Section No. 109, subject as to the issue of such grants to a direction of the Commissioner.

| Wellington. | 79 | 154 | William Barnard Rhodes. | Entitled to a Crown Grant of part of the Town Section No. 134 in Wellington, having a frontage of 66 feet or thereabouts to Taranaki Street.

| Ditto. | 80 | 155 | William Nicolls. | Entitled to a Crown Grant of part of the Town Section No. 134 in Wellington, having a frontage of 33 feet or thereabouts to Ingestrie Street.

| Ditto. | 81 | 156 | Joseph Pudney. | Entitled to a Crown Grant of part of the Town Section.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF New Munster Gazette 1852, No 10A





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🗺️ Crown Land Claims Decisions (continued from previous page)

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
1 May 1852
Land claims, Crown grants, Wanganui, Wai-nui-O-Mata, Kaiwarra, Wellington, Porirua, Lower Hutt, Tukapu
15 names identified
  • John Garner, Entitled to Crown Grants of various town and country sections in Wanganui
  • Richard Prowse (the elder), Not entitled to grants for land in Wai-nui-O-Mata
  • Rich. Prowse (the younger), Not entitled to grants for land in Wai-nui-O-Mata
  • William Prowse, Not entitled to grants for land in Wai-nui-O-Mata
  • Robert Hart Pike, Entitled to Crown Grants of land in Kaiwarra and Wellington
  • William Blandford Burgess, Entitled to Crown Grants of land in Wellington and Porirua
  • Thomas Masen, Entitled to a Crown Grant of land in Lower Hutt
  • John Dorset, Entitled to a Crown Grant for land in Wellington
  • Nathaniel Levin, Entitled to a Crown Grant for land in Wellington
  • David Galloway, Entitled to Crown Grants for land in Lower Hutt
  • Henry Boyton, Entitled to a Crown Grant for land in Tukapu
  • David M'Ewen, Entitled to Crown Grants for land in Lower Hutt
  • William Barnard Rhodes, Entitled to a Crown Grant of land in Wellington
  • William Nicolls, Entitled to a Crown Grant of land in Wellington
  • Joseph Pudney, Entitled to a Crown Grant of land in Wellington