New Zealand Gazette – 1864 – No. 8

Page 99

✨ Land Claim Reports and Decisions

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 99

BY virtue of the 15th clause of the New Zealand Company's Land Claimant's Ordinance,
Session XI., No. 15, I do hereby report that it is expedient that the legal estate in
the lands specified in the following Schedule, and comprised in Reports on Claims made on
the 1st February instant, should be deemed to have been in the Claimants thereto res-
pectively from and after the dates placed opposite to the descriptions of the said lands res-
pectively.

SCHEDULE.

No. OF REPORT.	NAME OF CLAIMANT.	DESCRIPTION OF LAND CLAIMED.	Date of Legal Estate.
821	Robert Hughes	Part of town Allotment No. 965, New	30 Nov., 1861
		Plymouth
822	Thomas Smith, executor of Sa-	Town Allotment No. 19, N. Plymouth	31 Dec., 1861
	muel Smith
823	”	”	1315
824	”	”	1712
825	”	”	692
826	”	”	1953
827	”	”	577
828	”	”	1646
829	”	”	1502
830	”	”	4516
831	”	”	1731
832	”	”	1322
833	”	”	1439
834	George Hood and Anne Hood...	Part of	649
	William M. Crompton	Town	752
835	Charles Sampson	”	1149
838	Moses Hartley	”	2130
840	Frederick W. Remnant	”	1470
841	John Watson	Rural	15 Hua District
846	”	”	16
847	Rev. Charles Ibbotson	Town	922 N. Plymouth
848	George Pollard	”	875
853

HENRY R. RICHMOND,
Commissioner of Land Claims.

New Plymouth, 2nd February, 1864.

Land Claims Office,
Dunedin, 4th February, 1864.

I WILLIAM HENRY CUTTEN, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the
Ordinance No. 15, Session XI. of the Legislative Council of the Islands of New
Zealand, to hear and decide Claims to Land by persons claiming title thereto, from, through,
or under the New Zealand Company, report that the claims of the persons whose names
appear in the Schedule hereunder, having been duly referred to me for investigation, I do
hereby decide that the said persons are respectively entitled to the Crown Grants set
agaiust their names in the said Schedule.

W. H. CUTTEN,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

NO. OF REPORT.	NO. OF CLAIM.	NAME OF CLAIMANT.	COMMISSIONER'S DECISION.
233	93	William Walter Cargill	Entitled to a Crown Grant of town section No. 33 B, XIV., Dunedin
233	93	”	Entitled to a Crown Grant of suburban section No. 19, North-East Valley.
234	26	William James Balfour, jun.	Entitled to a Crown Grant of suburban section No. 72, Wakari District.
233	93	William Walter Cargill	Entitled to a Crown Grant of rural section Nos. 2 and 3 B, XXIV., Waihola District.
234	273	”	Entitled to a Crown Grant of suburban section No. 8 B, VII., Town District.
235	145	Bayley Pike...	Entitled to a Crown Grant of suburban sections Nos. 68 and 69 B, VI., Town District.
236	146	”	Entitled to a Crown Grant of suburban section No. 66, Town District.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1864, No 8

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🗺️ Report on Legal Estate Vesting for Land Claimants Schedule (continued from previous page)

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated2 February 1864
KeywordsLand Claims Ordinance, Legal Estate, New Plymouth, Schedule, Vesting
👱🏽 Names

12 names identified

Robert Hughes, Reported for legal estate vesting
Thomas Smith, Executor of Samuel Smith claim
Samuel Smith, Deceased claimant predecessor
George Hood, Reported for legal estate vesting
Anne Hood, Reported for legal estate vesting
William M. Crompton, Reported for legal estate vesting
Charles Sampson, Reported for legal estate vesting
Moses Hartley, Reported for legal estate vesting
Frederick W. Remnant, Reported for legal estate vesting
John Watson, Reported for legal estate vesting
Charles Ibbotson (Reverend), Reported for legal estate vesting
George Pollard, Reported for legal estate vesting

👩‍💼 Officials

Henry R. Richmond, Commissioner of Land Claims

🗺️ Commissioner's Decisions on Land Claims Referred for Investigation

Domain🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
Dated4 February 1864
KeywordsLand Claims, Crown Grant, Dunedin, Decision, Investigation
👱🏽 Names

William Walter Cargill, Entitled to Crown Grant
William James Balfour, Entitled to Crown Grant
Bayley Pike, Entitled to Crown Grant

👩‍💼 Officials

William Henry Cutten, Commissioner

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