✨ Native Land Court Sitting
Numb. 48.
655
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1878.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1878.
Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, April 29th, 1878.
W HEREAS it is provided by "The Native Land Act, 1873," that it shall be lawful for the Native Land
Court, either on the claim of any Native claiming to be interested in any land on account of which
money has been paid by officers duly authorized to obtain the cession of Native land to Her Majesty, or on
the claim of the Governor, to investigate the title to and the interest in such land, in the manner prescribed
in the said Act, and the Court shall make such order either for the completion of the agreement upon such
terms and conditions as the Court shall think fit, or for the apportionment of the land between the parties
interested therein, in such manner as the Court shall think equitable; or for the repayment by the Natives
who shall be found to have received such money as aforesaid of the same, or any part thereof to Her
Majesty; or it may by such order declare that such land or any part thereof has been duly ceded to Her
Majesty, and all such orders shall be good and effectual; and any order declaring that the land or any part
thereof has been duly ceded to Her Majesty shall vest the same in Her Majesty, and her successors,
absolutely as demesne lands of the Crown, freed and discharged from all Native title, custom, and usage:
And whereas it is enacted by "The Native Land Act Amendment Act, 1877," that the Native
Minister may at any time cause application to be made to the Native Land Court to ascertain and determine
what interest in any block of land has been acquired by or on behalf of Her Majesty, and the Court shall
hear such applications, and generally shall have all such powers and authorities in respect of any such
application as it would have in any matter in its ordinary jurisdiction; and after hearing all such evidence
as shall be thought necessary, or may be produced by or on behalf of any person interested in any such
application, the Court may grant such order as to it shall seem fit; and all lands declared in such order to
be the property of, or to have been acquired by or on behalf of, Her Majesty, shall from the date of such
order be deemed to be absolutely vested in Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for such estate or interest
(if any) as in the said order may be declared :
And whereas in pursuance of the above-recited provisions, application has been duly made to me by
the Native Minister to cause a sitting of the Native Land Court to be holden for the purpose aforesaid
with respect to the blocks of land hereunder mentioned and described:
Now I, Francis Dart Fenton, Esquire, the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, do hereby give
notice that such sitting will be held at Shortland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, on the 19th of
June next, to commence at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
F. D. FENTON,
Chief Judge.
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NZ Gazette 1878, No 48
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🪶 Notice of Native Land Court Sitting for Land Cession Investigation
🪶 Māori Affairs29 April 1878
Native Land Court, Land cession, Investigation, Auckland, Shortland, Sitting
- Francis Dart Fenton, Chief Judge