✨ Land Title Proclamation Schedule
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NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1857. [No. 7.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, Governor of the
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 Zea-
land 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 five several 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
Auckland, this eleventh day
of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-seven.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.
By His Excellency's command,
FREDK. WHITAKER.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !
SCHEDULE.
No. 1.
BOUNDARIES OF THE WAIKIEKI
BLOCK.
Estimated to contain 12,000 acres.
The boundaries are these :-Commencing at
Maswaba at the confluence of Tauraroa and
Manganui, thence of
it joins the boundary of Ruarangi, being the
land sold by Te Manihera on the East, that is,
the boundary of Ruarangi cut by the Surveyors.
The boundary of the South commences at Nga-
waha at the confluence of Tauraroa and Ma-
nganui, thence on in the Manganui Creek until
it joins the boundary of Ruarangi, being the
land sold by Te Manihera, that is, the Ruarangi
boundary as cut by the Surveyors.
No. 2.
BOUNDARIES OF THE RANGITA-
WHIRI BLOCK.
GREAT BARRIER ISLAND.
Estimated to contain 15,000 acres.
The boundaries of the land are these :-
Commencing at Matahoroa on the sea-coast at
the land formerly sold to Messrs. Whitaker and
Du Moulin, thence running along the sea-coast
to Whakatautuna, thence on to Harataunga
and as far as the termination on the Eastern Coast. On the
Western Coast it commences at Whangati, at
the land bought formerly by Messrs. Whitaker
and Du Moulin, running along the sea-coast to
Kohatupaopao and to Parahake, until it reaches
Akatarere; there it ends. The boundary on
the South is at the land bought by Messrs.
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NZ Gazette 1857, No 7
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🗺️ Proclamation Extinguishing Native Title over Land Blocks
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey11 March 1857
Proclamation, Native Title, Land acquisition, Waikieki Block, Rangitawhiri Block, Great Barrier Island
- Te Manihera, Land sold defining boundary
- Whitaker (Mr.), Land bought defining boundary
- Du Moulin (Mr.), Land bought defining boundary
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor
- Fredk. Whitaker