Numb. 40.
455

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1875.

Rehearing of Native Claims.

NORMANBY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At Wellington, this sixth day of July, 1875.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the eighth section of "The Native
Land Act Amendment Act, 1874," it is
enacted that in any case where an application for a
rehearing of any matter heard and decided under the
repealed Acts in the Act now in recital mentioned
shall have been made subsequently to the first day
of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three, the Governor in Council may, in the manner
provided by the fifty-eighth section of "The Native
Land Act, 1873," hereinafter called "the said Act,"
order a rehearing of any such matter so heard and
decided as aforesaid, and all the provisions of the
said Act respecting rehearings, as far as applic-
able, shall extend to any rehearing ordered under the
Act now in recital: Provided that such application
shall in each case have been made within six months
from the date of the decision of the Court in such
case : And whereas by the fifty-eighth section of the
said Act it is enacted that, upon the application of
any persons interested in any Native land who may
feel themselves aggrieved by the decision of the Court
in respect thereof, the Governor in Council may order
a rehearing of any matter heard and decided under
the provisions of the Act now in recital within such
a period of time from the publication of the decision
and memorial of ownership in manner in the Act now
in recital thereinbefore required as may be limited in
such order; and upon such order being made, all
proceedings theretofore taken by the Court in such
matter shall be annulled, and the case shall commence
de novo, and shall proceed in manner provided by the
Act now in recital: And whereas at a sitting of the
Native Land Court of New Zealand at Shortland, in
the District of Hauraki, in the Province of Auckland,
held on the tenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three, the claim of Reweti
Rangikaiwhiria, Hiria Reweti, Monikaera, Mereana

Reweti, Matiu Poona, Ema Reweti, Mere Watana,
Pare Watana, and Arani Wanata, to a piece of land
at Tararu District called Ipu o Moehau, was
heard and decided, and a certain order thereupon
made by the said Court: And whereas on or about the
seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four, an application was made by and on
behalf of Renata Kitahi and other aboriginal natives
claiming to have an interest in the said land, and
who felt themselves aggrieved by the decision of the
Court in respect thereof; and it is expedient that
the said claim should be reheard before the said
Court:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of the above recited power,
and by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order and
direct that the said claim of Reweti Rangikaiwhiria,
and the other Natives hereinbefore mentioned, shall
be reheard as and in the manner provided by "The
Native Land Act, 1873," and "The Native Land Act
Amendment Act, 1874," provided; and doth also order
that such rehearing shall take place within two years
from the said tenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-three.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Taking and Laying off a Road in Tangonoa Block.

NORMANBY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly,
intituled "The Native Land Act, 1873," it is
enacted that, from and out of any land which may
have heretofore been or may be granted under the
provisions of any of the Acts thereby repealed, or of
that Act, it shall be lawful for the Governor at any
time thereafter to take and lay off for public purposes
one or more line or lines of road or railway through
the said lands: Provided that the total quantity of
land which may be taken for such line or lines of
road shall not be more than after the rate of five
acres in every one hundred acres: Provided always
that this power shall cease and determine at the