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E. The estate or interest which the applicant seeks to
obtain in the said land by the aid of the Court is an estate
of freehold of the whole block.

F. The manner in which the applicant came to be invested
with the title she now holds to the said block is as follows:
The memorandum of transfer above specified.

G. The address for service of the applicant in the Town of
Auckland, where notices and other documents may be served
upon her by leaving the same at such place for her, is at the
office of Edmund Thomas Dufaur, solicitor, situated in
Queen Street, Auckland.

H. The applicant desires the estates and interests of th
Native persons mentioned in paragraph c of this applica-
tion, and all persons claiming through them, to be bound by
the decree of the Court, and for that purpose requires that
copies of this application should be served on them. The

names of the persons on whom the applicant requires that
copies of this application should be served are the said
Reupena Tahura, Rahera Tanui, Erana te Onerere, Wiremu
te Huia, Eretara Tinirau, Repiu Tokata, Henare Whaka-
rongohau, Raima te Hemoata, and Hapimana Hikihiki, all
residing at Whitianga, and the said Waata Tiaia, residing
at Miranda. The applicant desires that all other persons
who may claim to be interested in the validation applied
for shall be treated as parties to these proceedings, but the
applicant is unable to specify any names of persons other
than those set forth herein.

Dated at Auckland, this 29th day of March, 1895.
RHODA HAMPTON DAVIS
(By her Solicitor and Agent, E. T. DUFaur).
To the Registrar of the Validation Court,
Auckland.
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*Application to the Validation Court under "The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893."

IN THE VALIDATION COURT, HELD 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:—

Registered No.,
Deeds Registration
Office.

Date.

Instrument.

Parties.

86371
12 December, 1879
Grant of timber ..
Mangakahia and others to Walker and another.

86593
7 September, 1880
Grant of easements
Mangakahia and others to R. C. Greenwood.

86372
18 December, 1879
Transfer of timber rights ..
Walker and another to B. Johnson.

86373
18 December, 1879
Mortgage of timber rights ..
Johnson to Walker and another.

86374
10 August, 1880
Transfer of moiety
A. Walker to R. C. Greenwood.

86375
10 August, 1881
Transfer of moiety
A. Walker to R. C. Greenwood.

86376
10 August, 1881
Assignment of equity of re-
demption
B. Johnson to R. C. Greenwood.

86377
6 May, 1882
Transfer ..
Greenwood to the Auckland Timber Company
(Limited).

110494
15 October, 1888
Conveyance and assignment
The Auckland Timber Company (Limited) to the
Kauri Timber Company (Limited).

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 Manga-
kahia; 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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