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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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of the other part. The consideration agreed upon between the said parties was the sum of £40, and such further sum as should be found payable by virtue of a certain deed of covenant, bearing date the said 11th day of March, 1889, and made between the said George Canning Ormond of the one part and the said Heta Kanu of the other part, whereby the said George Canning Ormond covenanted (inter alia) for payment to the said Heta Kanu of £1 for every acre over and above 70 acres allotted in respect of the said interest on partition.

In the matter of the Moutere No. 1 Block,—
Deed of conveyance, bearing date the 2nd day of April, 1889, and made between the said Heta Kanu of the one part and the said George Canning Ormond of the other part. The consideration agreed upon between the said parties was £25, and such further sum as should be found payable by virtue of a certain deed of covenant, bearing date the said 2nd day of April, 1889, and made between the said George Canning Ormond of the one part and the said Heta Kanu of the other part, whereby the said George Canning Ormond covenanted (inter alia) for payment to the said Heta Kanu of £1 for every acre over and above 70 acres allotted in respect of the said interest on partition.

D. The lands which were intended to be alienated are the interests and shares of the Natives before mentioned in the two blocks of land before mentioned. The areas of the said blocks, and the titles thereto of the respective alienors at the time of the said alienations, were as follows:—

Nukutaurua Block, 3,452 acres. Title, grant from the Crown, bearing date the 4th day of March, 1868.

Moutere No. 1 Block, 389 acres. Title, grant from the Crown, bearing date the 9th day of February, 1871.

E. The estates or interests in the said blocks which the applicant seeks to obtain by the aid of the Court are estates or interests of freehold.

F. The manner in which the applicant came to be invested with the titles he now holds to the lands before mentioned is, in regard to each block, as follows:—

(1.) Proclamation by His Excellency the Governor, dated the 24th day of December, 1886, purporting to remove from the said Nukutaurua Block and the said Moutere No. 1 Block the restrictions against alienation.

(2.) The deeds of conveyance above specified.

G. The address for service of the applicant in the Town of Gisborne, where notices and other documents may be served upon him, by leaving the same at such place for him, is at the office of William Douglas Lysnar, Esq., solicitor, situated in Gisborne.

H. The applicant desires the estates and interests of the two Native persons mentioned in paragraph c of this application, and all persons claiming through them, 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 upon whom the applicant requires that copies of this application should be served are, the said Heta Kanu and Maraea Kiwi, residing at Whangawehi; Mahia, who appears to be entitled to represent the said Ihakara Waipakiaka (he being now deceased); and the Hon. James Carroll, M.H.R., Gisborne, and Wiremu Pere, M.H.R., Gisborne. 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 in the list hereto annexed.

Dated at Napier, this 7th day of January, 1895.

GEORGE CANNING ORMOND

(By his Solicitors and Agents,
CARLILE AND McLEAN,
Solicitors, Napier).

To the Registrar of the Validation Court, Gisborne. 24

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