THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 583

Now, therefore, His Excellency 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 interest and share of the said Wiremu Pere in the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and remain vested in

Hone Kewa,

as Trustee, within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, for the said Wiremu Pere during his minority.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land at Whatatutu, in the District of Hawke’s Bay, in the Province of Auckland, being called or known by the name of Whatatutu No. 1, containing by admeasurement 230 acres, more or less. Bounded on the North by the Waipaoa River; on the East by survey line dividing this block from Whatatutu No. 2; on the West by survey line dividing this block from Whatatutu proper; on the South by the Whatatutu Stream.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Appointing Puia Rereira Trustee under “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867.”

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Normanby, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of August, 1876.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867,” (hereinafter called “the said Act,”) 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, or lunatic, or other person under legal disability, shall be vested in trustees, as the Governor in Council shall think fit:

And whereas by an order bearing date the twenty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, under the hand of John Rogan, Esquire, Judge of the Native Land Court, under the seal of the said Court, it was ordered that a memorial of the ownership of Te Rehunga and others be inscribed on the Court rolls:

And whereas the said Te Rehunga is an infant, and it is expedient that Puia Rereira, of Poverty Bay, be appointed trustee under the said Act, on behalf of the said Te Rehunga:

Now, therefore, His Excellency 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 interest and share of the said Te Rehunga in the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and remain vested in

Puia Rereira,

as Trustee, within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, for the said Te Rehunga during his minority.

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SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land at Manukawhitikitiki, in the District of Hawke’s Bay, in the Province of Auckland, being called or known by the name of Manukawhitikitiki, containing by admeasurement 1136 acres, more or less. Bounded on the North by survey line separating this block from Whatatutu and by the Whatatutu Stream; on the East by the Waipaoa River; on the South by a survey line separating this block from Tapuihikitia Block; on the West by survey line separating this block from Manukawhitikitiki No. 1 Block.

Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Election of Councillors for the Borough of Picton.

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Normanby, Governor.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

WHEREAS by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” it is enacted that for the first election of Councillors under the said Act in every borough in which no Councillors shall as yet have been in office, those persons enrolled on any electoral roll which, under the provisions of “The Registration of Electors Act, 1866,” shall for the time being be in force, whose qualifications are in respect of lands and tenements situated within the borough, and none other, shall, on such day as the Governor shall appoint, not being less than forty days after the same shall have become such borough, and in the manner therein mentioned, elect the whole number of Councillors by the said Act assigned to such borough; and by the said Act it is also provided that every election of Councillors for any borough not divided into wards shall be held by and before the Mayor of the borough, and that if at any time there shall be no Mayor the Council of the borough, or if there be no such Council the Governor, may and shall appoint some person by and before whom such election shall be conducted:

And whereas the Town of Picton was, by Proclamation bearing date the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, constituted a borough under the said Act:

And whereas it has been made to appear to me that there is no Mayor of the said borough, nor any Council of the said borough, and that the said borough is not divided into wards:

Now know ye that I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Act, do hereby appoint the twenty-first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, to be the day whereon the first election of Councillors for the Borough of Picton shall take place; and in further exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, I do hereby appoint

Stephen Lunn Muller, Esq.,

of Blenheim, to be the person by and before whom the said election shall be held.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy