✨ Trustee Appointments for Maori Land
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 799
No. 1 Block, 13,218 links, and by a line 1,895 links; towards the West by the Kairangi Block, 1,455 links; by the Tukemokihi No. 3 Block, 3,186 links, 5,065 links, and 625 links; by the Kahuitara No. 2 Block, 5,930 links and 5,255 links, and by the Kahuitara No. 1 Block, 1,370 links; and towards the North by the Rotopara Stream, and by the aforesaid Kahuitara No. 1 Block, 2,480 links and 1,870 links.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Appointing Areta Te Apatu Trustee under “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867.”
NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of November, 1876.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by “The Maori Real Estate Management 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, or 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 certificate of title bearing date the eighteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the parcel of land and hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto became vested in Nakora Kopu and others, of the District of Te Wairoa, in the Province of Hawke’s Bay, aboriginal natives of New Zealand:
And whereas the said Nakora Kopu died intestate:
And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court, held at Te Wairoa, in the province aforesaid, on the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, Hiri Kopu claimed to succeed to the interest and share of the said Nakora Kopu in the parcel of land described in the said Schedule:
And it was ordered by the said Court that Raiha Kopu, Katerina Kopu, Hiria Kopu, and Itiria Kopu (an infant under the age of twenty-one years) should succeed to the interest and share of the said Nakora Kopu in the hereditaments aforesaid:
And it is expedient that Areta te Apatu be appointed Trustee under the said Act, on behalf of the said Itiria Kopu:
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 Itiria Kopu in the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and remain vested in the said
ARETA TE APATU,
as Trustee, within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, for the said Itiria Kopu during her minority.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land at Te Wairoa, in the District of Te Wairoa, and Province of Hawke’s Bay, containing four hundred and twenty acres, more or less,
and called or known by the name of Taumata-o-Te-o. Bounded towards the East by the Orangitirohia Block, 4,026 links; towards the South-east by the Wairoa River; towards the West by the Whakapau Block, 4,710 links; and towards the North-west by the Wharepu Block, 737 links; by the Rato Block, 2,540 links, 2,274 links, and 4,254 links; and by the Paeroa Block, 2,260 links.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Appointing Wi Haronga Trustee under “The Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867.”
NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of November, 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 Maata te Ao and others be inscribed on the Court rolls:
And whereas the said Maata te Ao is an infant, and it is expedient that Wi Haronga, of Poverty Bay, be appointed trustee under the said Act, on behalf of the said Maata te Ao:
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 Maata te Ao in the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and remain vested in
WI HARONGA,
as Trustee, within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act, for the said Maata te Ao during her minority.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land at Mangataikapua, in the District of Hawke’s Bay, containing by admeasurement seven thousand and ninety acres, more or less, and called or known by the name of Mangataikapua. Bounded on the North by the Waimakara River; on the East by survey lines; on the South by the Mangataikapua River; and on the West by the Waipaoa River.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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Boundary Description for Tukemokihi No. 2 Block
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🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey16 November 1876
Boundary, Tukemokihi No. 2 Block, Kairangi Block, Kahuitara No. 1 Block, Rotopara Stream
- Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council
🪶 Appointment of Areta Te Apatu as Trustee
🪶 Māori Affairs16 November 1876
Trustee appointment, Maori Real Estate Management Act, Te Wairoa, Itiria Kopu, Nakora Kopu
7 names identified
- Areta Te Apatu, Appointed Trustee
- Itiria Kopu, Beneficiary of Trust
- Nakora Kopu, Deceased landowner
- Hiri Kopu, Claimant of interest
- Raiha Kopu, Successor to interest
- Katerina Kopu, Successor to interest
- Hiria Kopu, Successor to interest
- Normanby, Governor
- Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council
🪶 Appointment of Wi Haronga as Trustee
🪶 Māori Affairs16 November 1876
Trustee appointment, Maori Real Estate Management Act, Poverty Bay, Maata te Ao
- Wi Haronga, Appointed Trustee
- Maata te Ao, Beneficiary of Trust
- Normanby, Governor
- Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council
- John Rogan, Judge of the Native Land Court
NZ Gazette 1876, No 62