✨ Governor's Land Proclamation
COIT OUF MAL
PENSE
NOIT
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1857. [No. 24.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, &c.,
&c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
"The Waste Lands Act, 1856," it is enacted
that no land acquired from the aboriginal in-
habitants after the passing thereof, shall be
open for sale or disposal until the Governor
shall have notified by Proclamation in the
"New Zealand Government Gazette" that the
Native Title has been extinguished over such
land.
Now, therefore, I, the Governor do hereby
proclaim and notify that the Native Title has
been extinguished over the Blocks of Land, the
boundaries whereof are mentioned or described
in the Schedule hereunto annexed.
Given under my hand, and issued
under the Public Seal of the
Colony of New Zealand, at
Government House, at Auck-
land, in the Colony afore-
said, this twentieth day of
August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
SCHEDULE.
Boundaries of the Puahanui Block,
(Ahuriri District,)
PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Estimated to contain 12,000 acres.
The boundary begins at the junction of the
Whakarapurapu and Mangaonuku Streams, runs
thence to Te Poua Onenuku, thence to Motu-
kumara; thence to Tuakirikiri; thence, through
the Tuamahapu Bush, to Te Korora, where it
emerges on the plain and follows the edge of
the Wood to Te Upoko O Paua, whence it runs
up the Mangamate Stream to Te Rewarewa
where it breaks off and runs to Mairepoiki,
at the Eastern end of the Mahua Bush; thence
up the Arawahi a Kaiatahu, to Te Puku;
thence to Te Haurakau; here it breaks off and
runs to Mangamauku; thence to Mangati-
keke, where it again breaks and runs in a
Southerly direction to Ngamahanga; thence to
Mangaupokororo; thence to Turia Hakeke,
where it breaks off and runs down the Tane-
ateko Stream, into the Mangamauku, and
down that stream into the Mangaonuku, thence
up the Mangaonuku to the Whakarapurapu.
Boundaries of the Ruahine Block,
(Ahuriri District,)
PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.
Estimated to contain 100,000 acres.
Bounded on the South by the Makaretu
River, on the North by the Wai-pawa River, on
the West by the summit line of the Ruahine
Mountains, and on the East by the Lands pur-
chased by the Government from the Natives,
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NZ Gazette 1857, No 24
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🪶 Proclamation extinguishing Native Title over Puahanui and Ruahine Blocks
🪶 Māori Affairs20 August 1857
Proclamation, Native Title, Land Blocks, Puahanui, Ruahine, Wellington Province
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor
- E. W. Stafford