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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.

Sitting of the Native Land Court.—Rangiauria.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that the adjourned sitting of the Court in the matter of the application to have reheard the claim to Rangiauria or Pitt’s Island will be held at Wellington, on Monday, the 10th day of March, 1890, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon.

W. BRIDSON,
Registrar.

Applications for Removal of Restrictions.

Native Land Court Office,
Whanganui, 31st January, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Judge of the Native Land Court, with an Assessor, will sit at the Native Land Courthouse, at New Plymouth, on the 5th day of March next ensuing, and make inquiry with respect to the applications of the persons named in the first column of the Schedule hereto for the removal of the restrictions on alienation of the land named in the second column, situate in the district named in the third column, and thereupon report as he shall think fit.

ELWIN B. DICKSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Sitting of the Native Land Court for the Subdivision of Hereditaments.

Native Land Court Office,
Whanganui, 31st January, 1890.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a sitting of this Court, to be held at New Plymouth, in the District of Taranaki, on the 5th day of March next, will be heard the applications of the persons whose names appear in the first column for the subdivision of the hereditaments comprised in the Crown grants of the pieces of land the names of which appear in the second column, situate in the districts named in the third column.

ELWIN B. DICKSON,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

SUBDISTRICT OF WAITARA.

| 9 | Pirihira te Tia, Rangipito te Ho, Maketu, Wiari te Rauroha, Ngatini Paekawa, Inia te Hunahuna, Inia Tuhata | Mautangihia | Waitara. |
| 10 | Rangituataka, Kingi Wetere, Pukatea | Mohakatino Parininihi No.1 | Mokau. |
| 11 | Eruini Rangiirihau | Ngatirahiri, Blocks 1 and 10 | Waitara. |
| 12 | Mihi Oriwia Rahira | Ngatirahiri, Block 4 | Waitara. |
| 13 | Eruini Rangiirihau | Waipapa | Waitara. |
| 14 | Catherine Kaea Willison, Frederick Willison, Tipi Willison, Harry Willison, Marion Willison, Louisa Willison | Allotments 4 and 5 of Block 1, and Allotment 41 of Block 4 | Waitara Survey District. |
| 15 | Catherine Kaea Willison, Tipi Willison, Frederick Willison, Harry Willison, Marion Willison, Louisa Willison | Allotment 23 of Block 4 | Waitara Survey District. |
| 16 | Whakarua, Waipuia | Tupari, Allotment 28 of Block 4 | Waitara Survey District. |
| 17 | Wi Rakatau, Roera Kati, Rangipito | Allotment 5 of Block 7, and Allotment 5 of Block 8 | Waitara Survey District. |
| 18 | Ramari Horomona, Etoa, Topine, Tunga, Eri Turner | Allotment 56 of Block 7, and Allotments 1 and 7 | Waitara Survey District. |
| 19 | Hapurona Horima, Peka Horima | Allotment 64 of Block 7, and Allotment 18 of Block 11 | Waitara Survey District. |
| 20 | Heni Tipene, Ti Wiera Tipene | Allotment 38 | Waitara West |
| 21 | Richard Giddy | Allotment 81 | Waitara West |
| 22 | Eruini Rangiirihau | Matarikoriko, Allotment 135 | Waitara West |

Notice under Section 13 of “The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889.”—Ngarara.

Native Land Court Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1890.

IN the matter of “The Native Land Court Acts Amendment Act, 1889,” and in the matter of an application