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.THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1869.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twenty-seventh day of January, 1869.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The Maori Real Estate Manage-
ment Act, 1867," it is enacted that if any title
to or interest in any hereditaments shall accrue to
any Maoris who, or any of whom, shall be infants,
lunatics, or under legal disability, it shall be lawful
for the Governor in Council, if he think fit, to order
that such hereditaments, or any part thereof, or
interest therein, as shall to the Governor in Council
be shown to belong to such infant, lunatic, or other
person under legal disability, shall be vested in
Trustees as the Governor in Council shall think fit:
And whereas, by virtue of a Crown Grant bearing
date the twenty-second day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, the parcel
of land and hereditaments described in the Schedule
hereto became vested in Te Harawira Turangapito,
Mata Turangapito, Te Mate Tahora, Metiria Turanga-
pito, and Hineitearakahia, of the Wanganui District,
Province of Wellington, aboriginal natives of New
Zealand: And whereas the said Te Harawira
Turangapito, Mata Turangapito, Te Mate Tahora,
Turangapito, and Hineitearakahia are infants
under the age of twenty-one years:

Turangapito, and Hineitearakahia, their heirs and
assigns for ever.

SCHEDULE.
All that parcel of land in the Province of Welling-
ton, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by
admeasurement one (1) rood and thirty-six (36)
perches more or less, situate at Ranana, in the
Whanganui District, being called or known by the
name of "The Store Block," and numbered Forty N.
(40N.); bounded towards the North by a line one
hundred and ninety-seven (197) links; towards the
East by a line three hundred and fifteen (315) links;
towards the South by the Whanganui River; and
towards the West by the Tauri Stream.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Now, therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
Colony, in exercise and in pursuance of the powers
and authorities vested in him by the said Act, doth
hereby order that the lands described in the Schedule
hereto shall be and remain vested in
TAMEHANA TE AEWA, and
TARETE MORINGA,
both of Whanganui District, aboriginal natives, as
Trustees within the meaning and for the purposes of
the said Act for the said Te Harawira Turangapito,
Mata Turangapito, Te Mate Tahora, Metiria

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by deed bearing date the eighteenth
day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight, the loyal portion of the Aitanga-
mahaki and Rongowhakaata tribes, and of the hapu
of Ngaitahupo, ceded all their lands within certain
boundaries therein described to the Crown; and
whereas it is by the said deed stipulated, on the part
of the Crown, that, subject to the terms of the said
deed, those loyal persons whose claims to land within
the said boundaries shall have been lodged on or
before the eighteenth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-nine, shall have such claims
adjudicated upon by a Commission of Judges of the
Native Lands Court:
Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
G.C.M.G., Governor of New Zealand, by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said Colony, do authorize and empower you
JOHN ROGAN, Esq., and
HENRY ALFRED MONRO, Esq.,
being Judges of the Native Lands Court aforesaid,
to make inquiry into all such claims as aforesaid
which may be referred to you by the Colonial Secre-