THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 547

Appointing Joseph Tapia Trustee under “The Maori
Real Estate Management Act, 1867.”

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this
eleventh day of May, 1877.

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 Crown grant bearing
date the fourteenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five, the parcel of land
and hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto
became vested in Pita Tapia and others, their heirs
and assigns, of the District of Bay of Islands, in
the Province of Auckland, aboriginal natives of New
Zealand:

And whereas the said Pita Tapia died intestate:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land
Court, held at Ohacawai, in the Northern District,
in the province aforesaid, on the sixteenth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six, Raina Ngahuia Tapia claimed to succeed to the
interest and share of the said Pita Tapia in the parcel
of land described in the said Schedule:

And it was ordered by the said Court that Mere-
ana Tapia and Keita Tapia (half-castes), infants
under the age of twenty-one years, should succeed
to the hereditaments aforesaid:

And it is expedient that Joseph Tapia be appointed
trustee under the said Act on behalf of the said
Mereana Tapia and Keita Tapia:

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 interests
and shares of the said Mereana Tapia and Keita
Tapia, in the land described in the Schedule hereto,
shall be and remain vested in

JOSEPH TAPIA,

as Trustee within the meaning and for the purposes
of the said Act for the said Mereana Tapia and Keita
Tapia during their minority.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Province of Auckland,
in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by
admeasurement five (5) acres, more or less, situate at
Kaikohe, in the Bay of Islands District, County of
Hokianga, being called or known by the name of
Ohuangaro No. 2, and numbered three thousand two
hundred and thirteen (3213). Bounded towards the
North by a line four hundred (400) links; towards
the East by a line one thousand one hundred and
forty (1140) links; towards the South by a line five
hundred (500) links; and towards the West by the
Ohuangaro No. 1 Block, one thousand two hundred
and ninety (1290) links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 trus-
tees, as the Governor in Council shall think fit:

And whereas by virtue of a Crown grant bearing
date the eighteenth day of December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five, the parcel of land
and hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto
became vested in Pita Tapia and others, their heirs
and assigns, of the District of Bay of Islands, in
the Province of Auckland, aboriginal natives of
New Zealand:

And whereas the said Pita Tapia died intestate:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land
Court, held at Ohacawai, in the Northern District,
in the province aforesaid, on the sixteenth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six, Raina Ngahuia Tapia claimed to succeed to the
interest and share of the said Pita Tapia in the parcel
of land described in the said Schedule:

And it was ordered by the said Court that Mere-
ana Tapia and Keita Tapia (half-castes), infants
under the age of twenty-one years, should succeed
to the interest of the said Pita Tapia in the heredita-
ments aforesaid:

And it is expedient that Joseph Tapia be appointed
trustee under the said Act on behalf of the said
Mereana Tapia and Keita Tapia:

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 interests
and shares of the said Mereana Tapia and Keita
Tapia, in the land described in the Schedule hereto,
shall be and remain vested in

JOSEPH TAPIA,

as Trustee within the meaning and for the purposes
of the said Act for the said Mereana Tapia and Keita
Tapia during their minority.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Province of Auckland,
in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by
admeasurement one hundred and fifty six (156) acres,
more or less, situate at Kaikohe, in the Bay of
Islands District, County of Hokianga, being called or
known by the name of “Onemaroke,” and numbered
one thousand one hundred and sixty-four (3164).
Bounded towards the North by a stream; towards
the North-east by a line two thousand six hundred
(2600) links; towards the South-east by the Toka-
kopuru Block, two thousand nine hundred and two
(2902) links, the Otauramokoko Creek, and the
Pehipunga Creek; towards the South-west by the
Tokakopuru Block, one thousand three hundred
and twenty (1320) links; and towards the North-