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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

of the Chief Judge to notify the same in the Gazette, and also the name and description of the land, and the time when the said forty days will expire.

7. Any person who, on his own behalf or as agent or trustee for any other person, shall take or accept any conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, or other assurance from any Native, whether to himself solely or to himself and others, of any Native land or of any land not heretofore owned as aforesaid, or which, becoming hereafter so owned, shall not have been owned for forty days as aforesaid, or who shall be a party to any negotiation, agreement, contract, or promise for the making to him, or to him and others, or to any other person, of any such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, or other assurance, or for the accepting or giving of any such agency or authority, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding five hundred pounds, to be recovered in a summary way.

Every such conveyance, lease, transfer, gift, and other assurance, agreement, contract, promise, agency, and authority shall, except as hereinafter provided, be illegal and void:

Provided that no person shall be convicted of any offence aforesaid except on the information or complaint of some person duly authorised in that behalf by the Governor, either generally or in respect of some particular case.

"THE NATIVE LANDS FRAUDS PREVENTION ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1889."

3. The words "to not more than twenty Natives" in section five of "The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888" (hereinafter called the said Act), shall not apply to land owned by Natives under Crown grant, memorial of ownership, or certificate of title under either a Native Land Court or a Land Transfer Act issued before the passing of the said Act, or in respect to which an order had been made by the Native Land Court for the issue of a Crown grant, certificate of title, or memorial of ownership, or an order under "The Native Land Court Act, 1886," declaring the owners or person entitled on investigation of title or partition, before passing of the said Act:

(1.) If such land does not exceed five thousand acres in area; or

(2.) If a contract in writing for the alienation of such land of any area, or any part thereof, had been made and not completed before the passing of the said Act.

And the said section shall be read and construed in respect of such lands as though the said words "to not more than twenty Natives" had been omitted therefrom: Provided that nothing in the said fifth section shall be deemed to prevent a lease of land so owned or the subject of such order as aforesaid not exceeding ten thousand acres.

Native Land Court Notices.

Notice of Dismissal of Applications for Rehearing.

NOTICE is hereby given that a rehearing has been refused in the matter of the investigation of the title to Manunu, situate at Hokianga.

Dated this 6th day of January, 1890.

H. G. SETH SMITH,
Chief Judge.

"The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881," and "The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Act, 1888."

Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 15th January, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Trust Commissioner will, under the authority and for the purposes of the said Acts, hold a Court at Paeroa, Ohinemuri, on the 19th day of February, 1890, for investigating the several cases mentioned in the Schedule hereunder; at which time and place all persons interested in the said cases, and having objections to any of the dealings, are hereby notified to attend.

Edw. HAMMOND,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

1. A TRANSFER dated the 8th day of November, 1889, of land called Huepakari No. 2, made to Asher Cassrels by Rihitoto Mataia.

2. A transfer dated the 7th day of December, 1889, of land called Section 48, Block 12, Aroha Survey District, and Section 70, Block 2, Wairere Survey District, and Section 15, Block 9, Aroha Survey District, made to Ann Jane Lipsey and Augustus Koropango Lipsey by Hare Renati.

3. A transfer dated the 18th day of November, 1885, of land called Te Ao-te-Kowhai, made to David Snodgrass by Kemara Tiraruaahine and others.

4. A transfer dated the 24th day of July, 1878, of land called Parahamuti, made to Frederick Tetley, John Scott, George Cooper, and James Williams by Parata Karena and others.

5. A transfer dated the 3rd day of December, 1889, of land called Lots 3, 4, and 5, Section 28, Block 9, Aroha Survey District, made to James Lavery by Erueti Ngakoki and Pokai Pereki.

6. A transfer dated the 16th day of November, 1889, of land called Section 16, Block 5, Aroha Survey District, made to Charles J. Dearle by Erueti Wetea and Meteria Papahuaki.

Notice under Section 13 of "The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889."—Mangangarara.

Native Land Court Office,
Gisborne, 15th January, 1890.

IN the matter of "The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889," and in the matter of an application made by John D. Ormond for an inquiry, under the provisions of the thirteenth section of the said Act, into the matters alleged in such application with reference to certain alleged errors or omissions in the decisions or orders of the Court in respect of the Mangangarara Block:

Notice is hereby given that it is intended to hold such inquiry at Hastings, on the 22nd February, 1890, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. All persons having an interest in the said land are hereby invited to attend.

And it is also hereby notified that a copy of the said application has been deposited for inspection in the office of the Resident Magistrate at Napier.

JOHN BROOKING,
Registrar.

"The Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act, 1881," and the Native Lands Frauds Prevention Act 1881 Amendment Acts, 1888 and 1889.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Trust Commissioner will, under the authority and for the purposes of the said Acts, hold a Court at the Native Land Court Office, Wellington, on Thursday, the 30th day of January, 1890, at half-past 9 o'clock in the forenoon, for investigating the cases mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, at which time and place all persons interested in the said cases, and having objections to any of the dealings, are hereby notified to attend.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

UPPER WAITARA, SECTION 2, BLOCK V.

90-5. TRANSFER dated the 18th day of December, 1889, from Mere Naera Pomare to Francis London.

ARAKEKE M.

90-6. Transfer dated the 14th day of December, 1889, from Mere Parata to Henare Piti Porutu.

HUTT, SECTION 9 OF BLOCK XII. OF SECTION 3.

90-7. Transfer dated the 11th day of January, 1890, from Komene Paipa to Rose Reading.

Members of Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards appointed.

Charitable Aid Office, Wellington, 17th January, 1890.

HIS Excellency the Governor, in terms of section 7 of "The Hospitals and Charitable Aid Act, 1885," has been pleased to appoint the persons named in the first column of the Schedule hereto to represent the local authorities named in the second column on the Boards of the districts named in the third column.

W. R. RUSSELL.

SCHEDULE.