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such rehearing shall take place within two years from
the said fifth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
to as "the said Act"), it is enacted that, upon the ap-
plication of any persons interested in any Native
land who may feel themselves aggrieved by the
decision 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
publication of the decision and memorial of owner-
ship 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
shall be annulled, and the case shall be commenced
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 at a sitting of the Native Land
Court of New Zealand, at Whanganui, in the District
of Whanganui, in the Provincial District of Welling-
ton, on the seventeenth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty, the claim of John William
Cruttenden Lockett, of New Zealand, for the sub-
division of a piece of land called Maramaratotara,
situate at Whanganui, in the said district, was heard
and decided, and certain orders were thereupon made
by the Court:
And whereas on or about the third day of Sep-
tember, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, an
application was made, by and on behalf of certain
aboriginal natives of New Zealand 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
Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby
order and direct that the said claim of John William
Cruttenden Lockett for the subdivision of 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 seventeenth
day of August, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rehearing of Native Land Claim.

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this
fifteenth day of February, 1881.
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 appli-
cation of any persons interested in any Native land
who may feel themselves aggrieved by the decision
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 said Court in
such matter shall be annulled, and the case shall be
commenced de novo, and shall proceed in manner
provided by the said Act: Provided that no appli-
cation for a rehearing shall be entertained if it be
made after six months shall have elapsed from the
time of such publication:
And whereas at a sitting of the Native Land Court
at Whanganui, in the District of Whanganui, in the
Provincial District of Wellington, on the fifth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, the
claim of Turuhira Taku and others, aboriginal natives
of New Zealand, to a piece of land called Rangataua,
situate at Whanganui, in the said district, was heard
and decided, and certain orders were thereupon made
by the Court:
And whereas on or about the third day of Septem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and eighty, an
application was made, by and on behalf of certain
aboriginal natives of New Zealand 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
Executive Council of New Zealand, doth hereby
order and direct that the said claim of Turuhira
Taku 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 fifth day of August, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Reviewer under "The Property Assess
ment Act, 1879."

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in me in that behalf by "The
Property Assessment Act, 1879," and of all other
powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that
behalf, I, Arthur Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

HENRY CLARK
to be a Member of a Board of Reviewers for the
Otago District, in conjunction with Allan Holmes
and Alexander Mollison, in lieu of Francis Fulton,
resigned.

As witness the hand of his Excellency the
Governor, this fourth day of February,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
one.

JOHN HALL,
(in absence of the Colonial Treasurer.)