Dec. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1937

SCHEDULE.
APPLICATIONS FOR CONFIRMATION OF ALIENATIONS.

Rules for Native Land Court.

W
HEREAS by "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," it is enacted that the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court may from time to time, with the approval of the Governor in Council, make and prescribe rules of practice and procedure and forms of proceedings in the various matters in which jurisdiction is or may be conferred on the said Court, and for regulating the sittings of the said Court, and for fixing the fees to be paid under the said Act, and the time and mode of payment, and for enforcing payment thereof:

Now, therefore, I, George Boutflower Davy, Chief Judge of the said Court, do hereby, for the purposes aforesaid, and each and every of them, and in exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me by the hereinbefore-recited Act, make the rules and regulations and prescribe the forms of procedure following:—

CLAIMS UNDER SECTION 118 OF "THE NATIVE LAND COURT ACT, 1894."

1. Notices of claim under Section 118 are to be forwarded in triplicate to the Chief Judge, who will forward one copy thereof to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District. Notices must state nature of claim and lands affected with sufficient distinctness, but no special form of notice is required.

2. If the claim be in respect of land in more than one block, a separate notice must be given in respect of each block, but subdivisions of a block may be included in a single notice.

3. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to notify the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district of the time and place appointed for holding any inquiry under section 118, and to give public notice thereof in the Gazette.

4. Certificates under section 118 shall be in the form or to the effect in the Schedule hereto, and shall be in duplicate. It shall be the duty of the Judge signing the same to transmit one duplicate thereof to the Chief Judge, and the other shall be forwarded to the Registrar of the district for delivery to the person entitled.

5. Before signing any such certificate, the Judge shall give fourteen days' notice in writing to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district of his intention to sign the same.

6. A separate certificate shall be given in respect of each block or subdivision: Provided that the Judge may at his discretion include two or more subdivisions of the same block in a single certificate.

7. In addition to the ordinary fees of the Court in the matter of the inquiry, there shall be payable in respect of each such claim the following fees, which shall be paid by stamps affixed to the notice of claim. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to see that such stamps are duly affixed before notifying such claim for hearing:—

On lodging notice of claim .. .. £ 0 10 0
If such claim include more than one subdivision, for each additional subdivision .. 0 5 0
Gazetting notice of claim .. .. 1 0 0

There shall be paid also for each certificate granted £1.

8. No certificate shall be delivered until all fees of the Court and all fees payable under these regulations have been paid.

SCHEDULE.

Form of Certificate under Section 118 of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

Claim No. .

WHEREAS the claim of , under section 118 of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," to be allowed to complete the purchase [or lease] of certain shares in the Block was referred to me, the undersigned , a Judge of the

Native Land Court, by the Chief Judge of the said Court, to inquire into the circumstances thereof, under the provisions of section 118 aforesaid: And whereas I have duly held such inquiry, and am satisfied that there has been a purchase [or lease] as in the notice of claim alleged, and that the transaction was bond fide, and that the said was, at or prior to the passing of the said Act, in negotiation for the purchase or lease of other shares in the said block as hereinafter specified: Now, therefore, I, the said , do hereby, in terms of section 118 aforesaid, certify as follows:—

1. That the said has, prior to the passing of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," purchased [or leased] in accordance with law the share or interest of in the Block.

2. That such transaction is bond fide, and that the said [Native] was the duly-ascertained owner of the share or interest purchased [or leased] as aforesaid.

3. That the said was, at or prior to the date of the passing of the said Act, in negotiation for the purchase [or lease] of the shares of [other Natives] in the said block.

Given under my hand at , this day of , 18 .

Judge.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th December, 1894.

G. B. DAVY,
Chief Judge.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Application to the Validation Court under "The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893."

IN THE VALIDATION COURT,
HOLDEN AT GISBORNE.

In the matter of "The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893"; and in the matter of the Tawapata North No. 1 Block, and also of the Kaiwaitau Block, and also of the Tawapata North No. 2 Block, and also of the Tawapata South Block, and also of the Nukutaurua Block, and also of the Whangawehi No. 1 Block, and also of the Moutere No. 1 Block, and also of the Moutere No. 2 Block, and also of the Kinikini No. 1 Block.

A. W
E, James Carroll, of Gisborne, in the Provincial District of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand, a member of the General Assembly of New Zealand, and Wiremu Pere, of Gisborne aforesaid, also a member of the General Assembly of New Zealand, apply under the above-mentioned Act for the validation of the interests hereinafter mentioned in all those parcels or blocks of land situate at Te Mahia, in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, called or known respectively by the names of the Tawapata North No. 1 Block, the Kaiwaitau Block, the Tawapata North No. 2 Block, the Tawapata South Block, the Nukutaurua Block, the Whangawehi No. 1 Block, the Moutere No. 1 Block, the Moutere No. 2 Block, and the Kinikini Block.

B. The applicants desire to appear before the Validation Court on Monday, the 28th day of January, 1895, at the hour of 10.30 o'clock in the forenoon, or at the first sitting of the Court thereafter.

C. The natures of the several transactions proposed for validation are as follows:—

In the matter of the Tawapata North No. 1 Block: A memorandum of transfer, bearing date the 14th day of October, 1881, made between Hirini Maru, Hirini Whanga, Hirini Whanga and Ihaka Maihi (as trustees for Marara Whanga, Thiraira Whanga, and Matene Whanga), Ihaka