✨ Native Land Claim Hearing
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1745
And whereas the Honorable James Macandrew has requested me to investigate and settle the claims
of Angus Martin (as the representative of Samuel McDonald Martin, deceased), and of Lachlan Allan
McCaskill, to all that piece of land situate on the Eastern and Southern banks of the Thames River, being
part of the Block called Opukeko, in the District of Thames, in the Provincial District of Auckland,
containing six hundred and three (603) acres and three (3) roods, be the same a little more or less, and
whereof the boundaries are set out in the survey plan of the same:
Now, therefore, I, Francis Dart Fenton, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, do hereby give notice
that a Court will be holden at Shortland on the 15th day of January, 1879, commencing at ten of the clock
in the forenoon, for the purpose aforesaid.
F. D. FENTON,
Chief Judge.
PANUITANGA.
Tari o Te Kooti Whenua Maori,
Akarana, Nowema 21, 1878.
N OTEMEA kua takoto te tikanga i roto i "Te Ture Whenua Maori, 1873," ki te mea ka tukua e te
Komihana mo nga Kereme Whenua i whakaturia nei i runga i nga tikanga o "Te Ture Whakarite
Kereme Whenua, 1856," me "Te Ture Whakarite Kereme Whenua, 1858," ki tetahi o nga Kaiwhakawa o
Te Kooti Whenua Maori o tetahi o nga Takiwa i whakarite nei e "Te Ture Whenua Maori, 1873," he
tono kia whakawakia e ia etahi o aua tu Kereme, ka tahuri ia ki te whakawa ki te whakaoti hoki i aua
Kereme:
A notemea kua tae mai ki ahau he tono na Mekeanara, ko ia nei tetahi o nga Minita, kia whakawakia
kia whakaotia hoki nga Kereme a Angus Martin (he Kaiwhakahaere ia mo Samuel McDonald Martin kua
mate atu ra), a Lachlan Allan McCaskill hoki ki taua piihi whenua katoa i te taha ki te Rawhiti me te taha
hoki ki te Tonga o te awa o Waihou, ara ko tetahi wahi o te whenua ko Opukeko nei tona ingoa, i te
Takiwa o Te Temu, i te Porowini Takiwa o Akarana. Ko te nui o taua whenua i te ruritanga ai e ono rau
ma toru eka, e toru ruri, neke ake nuku iho ranei. Ko nga rohe kei te mapi o taua whenua e mau ana.
Na he Panuitanga tenei naku, na Te Penetaua, na te Tumuaki Kaiwhakawa o te Kooti Whenua Maori,
kia mohiotia ai ka tu te Kooti Whenua Maori ki Hoterene Taone, a te 15 o nga ra o Hanuere, 1879, timata
i te tekau o nga haora o te ata, hei whakawa i taua tonu.
PENETANA,
Tumuaki Kaiwhakawa.
Printed under authority of the New Zealand Government, by GEORGE DIDSBURY, Government Printer, Wellington
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NZ Gazette 1878, No 122
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Notice of Native Land Court Hearing for Opukeko Block Claims
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🪶 Māori Affairs21 November 1878
Land claim, Opukeko Block, Thames District, Hearing date, Native Land Court, Maori translation
- Angus Martin, Claimant representative for deceased
- Samuel McDonald Martin, Deceased land owner
- Lachlan Allan McCaskill, Claimant for land
- Honourable James Macandrew
- F. D. Fenton, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court