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west by lines three thousand eight hundred (3800)
links, and one thousand one hundred and ninety-two
(1192) links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 Maori, 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 bear-
ing date the thirty-first day of October, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine, 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
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 Ohacawaii, in the Northern District, in
province aforesaid, on the sixteenth day of October,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, Ran-
Ngahuia Tapia claimed to succeed to the interest
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 ap-
pointed 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 that
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 ad-
measurement one hundred and sixty-eight (168)
acres, more or less, situate at Whangaruru, in the
District of Bay of Islands, County of Bedford, being
called or known by the name of Waikaramihia, and
numbered two thousand and fifty-four (2054) ;
Bounded towards the East by the Punaruku Creek,
by a line three hundred (300) links, by a line in
a curve and by lines two hundred (200) links and

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

two hundred and fifty (250) links, and by the said
Creek ; towards the South-east by a line five hundred
and fifty (550) links ; towards the South-west by lines
two thousand one hundred and nineteen (2119) links,
and one thousand three hundred and seventy-five
(1375) links ; towards the West by a line four
hundred and sixty-eight (468) links ; and towards
the North-west by a line one thousand five hundred
and forty-two (1542) links, and by the Parahaki
Block two thousand and twenty (2020) links, fifty-
three (53) links, and one thousand nine hundred
(1900) links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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 Maori, 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 bear-
ing date the twenty-second day of November, one thou-
sand eight hundred and sixty-nine, the parcel of land
and hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto
became vested in Maru Omanaia 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 Maru Omanaia died intestate :
And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land
Court held at Ohacawaii, in the Northern Dis-
trict, in the province aforesaid, on the sixteenth
day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, Emere Tapia claimed to succeed to the
interest and share of the said Maru Omanaia 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 Maru Omanaia in the hereditaments
aforesaid :

And it is expedient that Joseph Tapia be ap-
pointed 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 that
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
Tapia during their minority.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Province of Auckland,
in the Colony of New Zealand, containing by ad-
.