✨ Maori Land Trusteeship Orders
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Appointing Areta te Apatu a Trustee under "The
Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867."
NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of December, 1876.
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 in-
terest 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 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 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 and Mere Ka-
raka 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 ap-
pointed 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, in the Province of Hawke's Bay, containing
by admeasurement two hundred and eighty-one acres
and two roods, more or less, being called or known by
the name of Te Whakapau. Bounded towards the
North-east by the Wharepu Block, 2850 links; to-
wards the North-west by the Wharepu Block afore-
said, 1998 links; towards the East by the Taumata-
o-te-o Block, 4710 links; and on all other sides by
the Wairoa River.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Appointing Areta te Apatu a Trustee under "The
Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867."
NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
twelfth day of December, 1876.
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 certificate of title
bearing date the seventeenth day of September, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, 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 ap-
pointed 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 de-
scribed 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, containing seventy-one acres and three
roods, more or less, and called or known by the
name of Te Potaka. Bounded towards the East by
Te Koutu Block 836 links and 232 links, by Lot
No. 381 of the Township of Clyde, by a public road,
by Lots 235 and 234 of the said township, by a public
road, by Suburban Reserve No. 13 of the said town-
ship, by a public road, and. by Government Reserve
No. 28, 2729 links; towards the South-east by a
public road, 2484 links; towards the South-west by
the Orere Block, 1668 links; and towards the North-
west by the Wairoa River.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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🪶 Order appointing Areta te Apatu Trustee for Itiria Kopu's interest in Te Whakapau
🪶 Māori Affairs12 December 1876
Order in Council, Trustee Appointment, Infant, Land Vesting, Te Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, Te Whakapau
8 names identified
- Areta te Apatu, Appointed trustee for Itiria Kopu
- Itiria Kopu, Successor infant beneficiary
- Nakora Kopu, Deceased original owner
- Hiri Kopu, Claimed succession interest
- Mere Karaka, Claimed succession interest
- Raiha Kopu, Succeeded to interest
- Katerina Kopu, Succeeded to interest
- Hiria Kopu, Succeeded to interest
- NORMANBY, Governor
- FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council
🪶 Order appointing Areta te Apatu Trustee for Itiria Kopu's interest in Te Potaka
🪶 Māori Affairs12 December 1876
Order in Council, Trustee Appointment, Infant, Land Vesting, Te Wairoa, Te Potaka
7 names identified
- Areta te Apatu, Appointed trustee for Itiria Kopu
- Itiria Kopu, Successor infant beneficiary
- Nakora Kopu, Deceased original owner
- Hiri Kopu, Claimed succession interest
- Raiha Kopu, Succeeded to interest
- Katerina Kopu, Succeeded to interest
- Hiria Kopu, Succeeded to interest
- NORMANBY, Governor
- FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council
NZ Gazette 1876, No 69