Numb. 36.

497

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1880.

Rehearing of Native Land Claim.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
eighth day of April, 1880.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fifty-eighth section of "The
Native Land Act, 1873" (hereinafter referred
to as "the said Act"), it is enacted that, upon the
application of any persons interested in any Native
land who may feel themselves aggrieved by the deci-
sion of the Native Land Court in respect thereof, the
Governor in Council may order a rehearing of any
matter heard and decided under the provisions of the
said Act, within such a period of time from the pub-
lication of the decision and memorial of ownership,
in manner in the said Act required, as may be limited
in such order; and, upon such order being made, all
proceedings theretofore taken by the Court in such
matter shall be annulled, and the case shall commence
de novo, and shall proceed in manner provided by the
said Act: Provided that no application for a rehear-
ing shall be entertained if it be made after six months
shall have elapsed from the time of such publication:

And whereas by "The Native Land Act Amend-
ment Act, 1874," it is enacted that, in any case where
an application for a rehearing of any matter heard
and decided under "The Native Lands Act, 1865,"
or any amendment thereof, shall have been made sub-
sequently to the first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three, the Governor in Council
may, in the manner provided by the fifty-eighth sec-
tion of the said "Native Land Act, 1873," order a
rehearing of any such matter; and all the provisions
of the said Act respecting rehearings, so far as applic-
able, shall extend to any rehearing ordered under the
now reciting Act: Provided that such application be
made within six months from the date of the decision
of the Court:

And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court
of New Zealand, at Tauranga, in the District of Bay
of Plenty, in the Provincial District of Auckland, on
the thirteenth day of November, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight, the claim of Aporo Tipi-
tipi and others, aboriginal natives of New Zealand, to
a piece of land called Rau-o-te-Huia, situate at
Maketu, in the said district, was heard and decided,
and a certain order was thereupon made by the said
Court under the said Act of 1865 and its amend-
ments:

And whereas on or about the sixth day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, an
application was made by and on behalf of certain
aboriginal natives claiming to have an interest in the
said land for a rehearing of the said claim, and it is
expedient that the said claim should be reheard
before the said Court:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
exercise and pursuance of the above-recited power,
and by and with the advice and consent of the Exe-
cutive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby order
and direct that the said claim of Aporo Tipitipi and
others to the piece of land aforesaid shall be reheard
as and in the manner provided by "The Native Land
Act, 1873," and doth also order that such rehearing
shall take place within two years from the said thir-
teenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-eight.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rehearing of Native Land Claim.

HERCULES ROBINSON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
eighth day of April, 1880.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fifty-eighth section of "The
Native Land Act, 1873" (hereinafter referred

ERRATUM.—In New Zealand Gazette No. 33, of the 6th April, 1880, page 447, in notice of appointments under "The
Property Assessment Act, 1879," for "Vautier Janisch," read "Vautier Lambe Machado Jänisch."