Orders in Council




1162
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

Appointing Persons named in Schedule Trustees under Maori Real Estate Management Acts, 1867–77.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of August, 1883.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by “The Maori Real Estate Management 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 or lunatic or other person under legal disability shall be vested in trustees, as the Governor in Council shall think fit:

And whereas by “The Maori Real Estate Management Act Amendment Act, 1877,” it is provided that, in all cases in which no trustee of such estate of any infant Maori prior to the passing of the said last recited Act has been appointed, the Governor may appoint such trustee only on the recommendation of a Judge of the Native Land Court:

And whereas, in pursuance of orders bearing dates as contained in the first column of the Schedule hereto, made by the Judge named in the second column thereof, the persons named in the third column were recommended to the Governor as trustees under the said Acts on behalf of the persons named and under the disability described in the fourth column, in respect of the lands described or referred to in the fifth column:

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 Acts, doth hereby order that the interests and shares of the persons under disability named in the Schedule hereto in the several blocks of land referred to therein shall be and remain vested in the several persons named in the third column thereof as trustees within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Acts for the said persons respectively during the term or terms of their minority or other disability; the said parcels of land having the areas and boundaries set forth in the Crown grants, certificates of title, and memorials of ownership affecting the same, and in the record maps in the office of the Surveyor-General.

SCHEDULE.

Dates of Orders. Judge by Whom Made. Trustees hereby appointed. Names, Sex, and Age of Persons under Disability. Lands in respect of which Trustees are appointed.
1882. 8 September .. Frederick M. P. Brookfield Karanama Te Ra .. Mananui Te Ra, m., 14 yrs. Mangatainoka No. 2A, 17,515 acres, Seventy-Mile Bush, Wellington.
" .. " " " Mangatainoka No. 3, 37,847 acres, Seventy-Mile Bush, Wellington.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Order to take Land for Portion of a Road in the Auckland Provincial District.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixth day of August, 1883.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Public Works Act, 1882,” and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, order that a road, known as the Victoria Okaihau Road, shall be constructed on or through land held or occupied by Native owners, and situated in the Parish of Maungataniwha, County of Mongonui.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorizing the Hobson County Council to build a Wharf at Whakahara.

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of August, 1883.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the sixteenth section of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” it is enacted that in any harbour where no Harbour Board is in existence the Governor in Council may authorize any person to construct harbour works (other than the reclamation of land from the sea, or any harbour, or the construction of any graving-dock, dock, or breakwater in any harbour or in the sea), and to use and occupy such parts of the foreshore, or of any tidal land or tidal waters, as may be necessary for the construction or use of such harbour works in any harbour where no Harbour Board is in existence; And whereas by the seventeenth section of the said Act it is also enacted that every such Order in Council shall be made upon such terms and conditions as the Governor in Council thinks fit, and the rights thereby conferred shall only be granted for a limited period, not exceeding in any case fourteen years, and may at any time be altered, modified, or revoked:

And whereas the Hobson County Council (hereinafter called “the said Council”) desire to build a wharf for the use, benefit, and convenience of the public in Kaipara Harbour, a place where no Harbour Board is in existence, and the said Council have applied to the Governor in Council for the issue of this order:

And whereas the said Council have deposited plans of the said wharf (marked M.D. 811, 824, and 825) at the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, in the manner prescribed by the one hundred and fifty-sixth section of the said Act, and, it having been made to appear to the Governor in Council that the proposed work will not be or tend to the injury of navigation, the Governor in Council hath this day approved of the said deposited plans, subject to the conditions set forth in this Order in Council:

Now, therefore, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorize the said Council to build at Whakahara, in the Wairoa River, Kaipara Harbour, on the site shown in the plans marked M.D. 824 and 825, for the use, benefit, and convenience of the public, a wharf, in accordance with the said plan marked M.D. 811, and to use and occupy such portion of the foreshore, or of any tidal land or tidal water, as may be necessary for the construction and use of such wharf, subject to the following conditions, that is to say,—

  1. That all persons shall, at all reasonable times, either in the day time or at night, have free and full liberty to use the above-mentioned wharf, after the same shall have been completed in accordance with the said plan, and to have ingress to and upon the said wharf, and egress therefrom, and regress thereto, as occasion may require.

  2. That the said Council shall maintain and keep the above-mentioned wharf and all erections thereon in good order and repair, and shall at all times permit to be erected and exhibited therefrom any lights for the guidance of vessels, and shall maintain at its own cost any such lights;



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🪶 Appointment of Trustees for Maori Real Estate

🪶 Māori Affairs
6 August 1883
Maori Real Estate Management Act, Trustees, Legal Disability, Land Vesting
  • Mananui Te Ra, Under legal disability, 14 years old

  • Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
  • Frederick M. P. Brookfield, Judge of the Native Land Court
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

🏗️ Order to Take Land for Road Construction

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
6 August 1883
Public Works Act, Road Construction, Native Land, Victoria Okaihau Road
  • Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council

🏗️ Authorization for Hobson County Council to Build Wharf

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
13 August 1883
Harbours Act, Wharf Construction, Hobson County Council, Kaipara Harbour
  • Wm. F. Drummond Jervois, Governor
  • Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council