New Zealand Gazette – 1870 – No. 16

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✨ Land Claim Decisions

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

I, DAVID LEWIS, 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 under-mentioned persons having been duly referred to me for investigation, I do hereby decide
that the said persons are respectively entitled to Crown Grants of the land set against their names in
the annexed Schedule.

New Zealand Company's Land Claimants' Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1870.

DAVID LEWIS,
Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

No. of Report.	No. of Claim.	Name of Claimant.	Commissioner's Decision.
1495	1256	Cornelius Campion	Entitled to a Grant of 300 acres of Land in the Rangitikei
1452 }		District, being the land formerly reported in favour of
		Andrew Green (Report 284), and to a further Grant of
		300 acres of Land in the same District, formerly reported
		in favour of Major Murray (Report 167). The legal
		estate to be ante-vested in the former as from the 1st
		February, 1854, and in the latter as from the 31st May,
		1853.
1496	1641 }	Robert Few	Entitled to a Grant of Sections No. 368 and 460, on the Plan of
	1705		the City of Wellington. The legal estate to be ante-vested
			in the Grantee as from the 28th July, 1840.
1497	1063 }	Henry William Rotermund	Entitled to a Grant of Section No. 127, and part of Section
	1576		No. 102, on the Plan of the City of Wellington. The legal
			estate to be ante-vested in the Grantee, namely, in the
			former as from the 24th August, 1854, and in the latter
			as from the 30th April, 1858.
1498	1331 }	Trustees of George Rees,	Entitled to a Grant of Sections Nos. 339, 468, 469, and 470,
	1342	deceased	on the Plan of the Township of Wanganui. The Grant to
			issue in the name of George Rees, and the legal estate
			to be ante-vested therein as from the 24th of April, 1858.
1499	1550	Thomas Flannary...	Entitled to a Grant of the Sections No. 442 and 443, on
			the Plan of the Township of Wanganui. The legal estate
			to be ante-vested in the Grantee as from the 15th March,
			1859.
1500	1712	John McBeth	Entitled to a Grant of Section No. 950, on the Plan of the
			City of Wellington. The legal estate to be ante-vested in
			the Grantee as from the 31st December, 1851.
1501	1713	George Young	Entitled to a Grant of a portion of Section No. 488, on
			the Plan of the City of Wellington, being the upper
			part of the Allotment No. 4 on the subdivisional plan of
			the Section, having a frontage to Wellington Terrace.
			The legal estate to be ante-vested in the Grantee as from
			the 10th day of December, 1842.

I, DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand, intituled "The Lost Land Order Act, 1861," to hear and decide claims for Crown Grants
of Lands for which the original Land Orders or other documents relating thereto have been lost or
destroyed, report that the claims of John McBeth, of Rangitikei, and George Young, late of Wellington,
having been referred to me by command of the Governor, I do hereby decide that the aforesaid Claimants
are entitled to Crown Grants of the Land referred to in the annexed Schedule.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of March, 1870.

DAVID LEWIS,
Lost Land Order Commissioner.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Claimant.	Commissioner's Decision.
John McBeth	Entitled to a Grant of Section No. 950, on the Plan of the
...	City of Wellington, in accordance with the provisions
of "The New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Ordi-
nance, Session XI., No. 15."
George Young	Entitled to a Grant of part of Section No. 488, on the Plan of
...	the City of Wellington, in accordance with the provisions
of "The New Zealand Company's Land Claimants Ordi-
nance, Session XI., No. 15."