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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 28

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

IN THE VALIDATION COURT AT
WANGANUI.

In the matter of “The Native Land (Validation of Titles) Act, 1893”; and in the matter of the block or parcel of land known as Section No. 13E of Awarua No. 2c Block.

ROBERT THOMPSON BATLEY, of Moawhango, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and Colony of New Zealand, storekeeper, desires to appear before the Validation Court at Wanganui on Monday, the 23rd day of May, 1898, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon, and to ask that the estate and interest of Horima Paerau, of Moawhango aforesaid (now deceased), in the said Section No. 13E of Awarua No. 2c, containing by admeasurement 50 acres, more or less—which estate and interest the said Horima Paerau agreed to convey and assure to the said Robert Thompson Batley by memorandum of agreement dated the 31st day of December, 1886, made by the said Horima Paerau, and delivered by him on the said 31st day of December, 1886, to the said Robert Thompson Batley—be vested in him, the said Robert Thompson Batley, for an estate in fee-simple. The consideration for the said agreement was services rendered by the said Robert Thompson Batley to the said Horima Paerau, extending over the period from the year 1882 to the year 1886, and the love which the said Horima Paerau bore to the said Robert Thompson Batley, together with the further consideration of services rendered by the said Robert Thompson Batley to the said Horima Paerau from and after the said 31st day of December, 1886, to the date of the death of the said Horima Paerau on the 7th day of April, 1897, and moneys expended by the said Robert Thompson Batley on behalf of the said Horima Paerau during both of the above periods.

2. At the time of the said agreement the said Horima Paerau was entitled to an undivided share in the Awarua Block, of which the above-mentioned section is a portion, but the extent of such interest was not at the date of the said agreement ascertained. Since then the said Awarua Block has been partitioned, and the title to the said Section No. 13E of Awarua No. 2c is an order of the Native Land Court, dated the 13th day of August, 1896, vesting the said land in the said Horima Paerau.

3. The estate or interest in the land which the applicant seeks to obtain through the aid of the Court is an estate in fee-simple in the said Section No. 13E of Awarua No. 2c.

4. The said Horima Paerau became invested with his title to the said section by virtue of the said order of the Native Land Court dated the 13th day of August, 1896; the said Robert Thompson Batley became invested with such title as he holds by virtue of the above-mentioned agreement, and also by virtue of an order of the Governor, dated the 9th day of March, 1897, ordering and declaring that all restrictions imposed by the certificate of title and partition order of the said land on the alienation of the said land be thereby removed, and also by virtue of an order of the Governor in Council, dated the 8th day of March, 1897, excepting from the operation of the 117th section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” for the purpose of absolute alienation to the said Robert Thompson Batley, all the estate, right, title, and interest of the said Horima Paerau in the said Section No. 13E of Awarua No. 2c.

5. The applicant names the office of Messrs. Bell, Gully, and Bell, in Wellington, as the place where notices, orders, and other documents may be served on the applicant by leaving the same at such place for him.

6. The applicant names Hakopa te Ahunga, of Moawhango aforesaid, and Hiraani te Hei, of Ponsonby, Auckland, as the persons upon whom the applicant requires that a copy of this application shall be served.

R. T. BATLEY.
Hastings, 29th March, 1898.
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Offices opened and closed; Designation corrected.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office, Wellington, 5th April, 1898.

THE following particulars of offices opened and closed, and of a designation corrected, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For the Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

• Now post and telephone combined.
  † No post-office.
  ‡ Again post and telephone combined; also now bureau.

DESIGNATION CORRECTED.