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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25.

"The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

Native Land Court Office, Gisborne, 22nd March, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that the several matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Gisborne on the 22nd day of April, 1895, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

JOHN BROOKING, Registrar.

[Gisborne, 95-13.]

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATIONS FOR CONFIRMATION OF ALIENATIONS.

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

IN THE VALIDATION COURT, HOLDEN AT AUCKLAND.

In the matter of "The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893"; and in the matter of the blocks of land situated at or near Whangapoua, in the District of Coromandel, in the Provincial District of Auckland, and known respectively as Pungapunga No. 1, Pungapunga No. 2, and Pungapunga No. 3.

A. THE KAURI TIMBER COMPANY (LIMITED), being a company duly incorporated under an Act of Parliament of the Colony of Victoria, known or cited as "The Companies Statute, 1864," the chief office of which in the Colony of New Zealand is in the City of Auckland, is the applicant.

B. The applicant desires to appear before the Validation Court at Auckland, to ask for relief on Wednesday, the 8th day of May, 1895, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, or at the first sitting of the Court thereafter.

C. The nature of the several transactions proposed for validation are,—
An instrument or deed bearing date the 12th day of December, 1879, made between Hamiora Mangakahia, Peneamine Tanui, and Pane Tarore of the one part, and Albert Walker and Robert Charles Greenwood of the other part; and an instrument or deed bearing date the 7th day of September, 1880, made between the said Hamiora Mangakahia (who executes for himself and as trustee for Hamiora Whakakoro), the said Peneamine Tanui (who executed for himself and as trustee for Tahere Raunui), and Pane Tarore of the one part, and the said Robert Charles Greenwood of the other part, transferring and assigning kauri and other timber trees, timber, logs, forest, and bush, and granting for the term of twenty-one years from the 12th day of December, 1879, rights to enter and cut down, remove and carry away, and dispose of kauri and other things as aforesaid; and also rights to make, form, and erect paths, roads, tramways, buildings, pits, booms, dams, bridges, and wharves; and to drive timber in and divert streams and watercourses, and also other rights and powers incidental to the enjoyment and use of the matters and things transferred, assigned, or granted, or intended so to be by the said deeds in consideration of the sum of £2,000.

D. The interests which were intended to be alienated were all the growing and standing timber on the Pungapunga No. 1 Block. The titles under which the said lands were held at the time of the said alienation were orders for the issue of memorials of ownership under "The Native Land Act, 1873."

E. The estates or interest in the said blocks which the applicant seeks to obtain by the aid of the Court are the absolute right to all the timber growing and being upon Pungapunga No. 1, with the full right to cut down and remove the same, together with the full and free right to exercise and enjoy the easements, rights, and privileges expressed to be conferred and granted by the said instruments or deeds, for such a period or term as will be equivalent to that portion of the original term of twenty-one years as was unexpired at the time the applicant was hindered or prevented from exercising the said rights and privileges.

F. The manner in which the persons through whom the applicant for validation came to be invested with the title it now holds, and the date and particulars of each transaction, are as follow:—

G. The address for service of the applicant in the City of Auckland, where notices, orders, or other documents may be served, is at the office of Edmund Thomas Dufaur, solicitor, situated in Queen Street, Auckland.

H. The applicant desires that all persons claiming to be interested in the said lands, and all persons claiming through them, shall be bound by the decree of this Court, and requires that copies of this application shall be served upon the said Hamiora Mangakahia, residing at Whangapoua, who claims to be entitled to succeed to the interest of Pane Tarore, now deceased; Peneamine Tanui, of Mercury Bay; Hamiora Whakakoro and Tahere Raunui, both of Whangapoua; Frederick Earl, of Auckland, solicitor, who claims to be a purchaser of the interest originally awarded to the said Hamiora Mangakahia; the National Bank of New Zealand (Limited), at Auckland, the mortgagee of the interest of Hamiora Mangakahia, claimed to have been acquired by the said Frederick Earl; the District Land Registrar at Auckland.

Dated at Auckland, this 27th day of February, 1895.

THE KAURI TIMBER COMPANY (LIMITED),
By its Attorneys,
THOS. PEACOCK.
JNO. BROWN.

To the Registrar of the Validation Court, Auckland.

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