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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
of New Ross, in the County of Wexford,
in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of
Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council; Knight Grand Cross of the Most
Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George; Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependencies,
and Vice Admiral of the same; and issued
under the Seal of the said Colony, at the
Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight.

G. S. WHITMORE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Native Land Court to ascertain the Shares of certain
Natives of the Ngatiraukawa tribe interested in the
Himatangi Block.

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of April, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS,
HEREAS by "The Himatangi Crown Grants Act, 1877," it is enacted that the Governor
shall, immediately after that Act comes into
operation, by Order in Council, direct the Native
Land Court to forthwith proceed, in any manner
it shall deem best, to ascertain, by such evidence as
shall think fit, whether admissible in a Court of
ordinary jurisdiction or not, the share or shares to
which each member of the Ngatiteau, Ngatituranga,
and Ngatirakau hapus of the Ngatiraukawa tribe of
aboriginal natives is interested, according to Native
usage and custom, in the block of land in the now
recited Act referred to as the Himatangi Block:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor
of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said colony, and in exercise and pursuance of
the power and authority vested in him by "The
Himatangi Crown Grants Act, 1877," doth hereby
order and direct that the Native Land Court shall
forthwith proceed, in any manner it shall deem best,
to ascertain, by such evidence as it shall think fit,
whether admissible in a Court of ordinary juris-
diction or not, the share or shares to which each
member of the Ngatiteau, Ngatituranga, and Nga-
tirakau hapus of the Ngatiraukawa tribe of aboriginal
natives is interested, according to Native usage and
custom, in the block of land in the said Act referred
to as the Himatangi Block.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Kapihana te Tuhi Trustee under "The
Maori Real Estate Management Act, 1867."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of May, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Maori Real Estate Manage-
ment Act, 1867" (hereinafter called "the
said Act"), 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 certificate of title
bearing date the seventh day of June, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, the parcel of land
and hereditaments described in the Schedule hereto
became vested in Pahau Ngatawa and others, of the
District of Hauraki, in the Provincial District of
Auckland, aboriginal natives of New Zealand:

And whereas the said Pahau Ngatawa died intes-
tate:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court
held at Kapanga, in the Provincial District of Auck-
land, on the twenty-ninth day of October, one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, Pahau
Tamaiti claimed to succeed to the said Pahau Nga-
tawa in the parcel of land described in the said
Schedule, and it was ordered by the said Court
that Hoani Pahau, Wharo Pahau, and Ngairo Pahau,
infants under the age of twenty-one years, should
succeed to the interest and share of the said Pahau
Ngatawa in the hereditaments aforesaid; and it is
expedient that Kapihana te Tuhi be appointed
trustee under the said Act, on behalf of the said
Hoani Pahau, Wharo Pahau, and Ngairo Pahau:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of
New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the colony, in exercise and
pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in
him by the said Act, doth hereby order that the
interest and share of the said Pahau Ngatawa in the
land described in the Schedule hereto shall be and
remain vested in

KAPIHANA TE TUHI
as Trustee, within the meaning and for the purposes
of the said Act, for the said Hoani Pahau, Wharo
Pahau, and Ngairo Pahau during their minority.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land in the Provincial District of
Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, containing
by admeasurement fifty-nine acres two roods twenty
perches, more or less, situate at Waiau, in the Dis-
trict of Coromandel, being called or known by the
name of Tutaemahia. Bounded towards the North-
east by the Coromandel Harbour; towards the East
by the Awhaiti Creek; towards the South by the
said creek and a line, twelve hundred and four
(1204) links; and towards the North-west by the
Tutaemahia No. 2 Block, three thousand one hun-
dred (3100) links.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Edward Walter Puckey, Esq., and Miri-
ama te Ngahue Trustees under "The Maori Real
Estate Management Act, 1867."

NORMANBY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
thirtieth day of May, 1878.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Maori Real Estate Manage-
ment Act, 1867" (hereinafter called "the
said Act"), 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