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of Rata, in the Provincial District of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, being the owner in severalty of the block or parcel of land mentioned and particularised in the Schedule hereto, has applied to be allowed to mortgage the said block of land: And whereas, by certificate bearing date the seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, under the hand of Robert Ward, Esquire, a Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand, and the seal of the said Court, it was certified that the said Rawinia Potaka, otherwise Wera Potaka, possesses, irrespective of the land proposed to be mortgaged, other land sufficient for her maintenance:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Act aforesaid, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby authorise the said Rawinia Potaka to mortgage the lands set out in the Schedule hereto to a lending department of the Government as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, known as Taraketi No. 20, containing 198 acres 2 roods, more or less, being the whole of the land comprised in partition order of the Native Land Court, dated the 24th day of November, 1897, in favour of Rawinia Potaka, otherwise Wera Potaka.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Greendale Domain Board under "The Public Domains Act, 1881."

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of April, 1899.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor in Council.
In exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by "The Public Domains Act, 1881," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in Council, dated the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, making delegation of certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth, with the like advice and consent, by this present Order, delegate, but only with respect to the piece or parcel of land described in the Schedule hereto, all the powers conferred by the Act aforesaid, except the powers under or conferred by sections five and twelve thereof, to the under-mentioned persons, who shall be known as the Greendale Domain Board, namely,
THOMAS WILLIAM ADAMS,
JOHN RUDD,
JAMES FOSTER RUDD,
WILLIAM ALEXANDER WILSON, and WALLACE MILLS
(hereinafter referred to as "the Board"), subject to the stipulations hereinafter contained, that is to say,

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the second Monday in each month, at eight o'clock p.m., at the Schoolroom, Greendale, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Monday, the eighth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.
2. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman or by any two members of the Board, provided that two days' notice of such meeting be given to each member, specifying the business to be transacted at such special meeting, and no other business than that so specified shall be transacted at such meeting.
3. Any three of the said Board shall form a quorum. Any meeting may be adjourned from time to time.
4. The members of the Board shall, at their first meeting, and thereafter at an annual meeting to be held on the second Monday in January in every succeeding year thereafter, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion, and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.
5. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.
6. If, by resignation, death, or incapacity, or otherwise, the office of Chairman shall be or become vacant, the members may at any monthly or special meeting appoint a Chairman.
7. All questions shall be determined by the majority of votes of the members of the Board present at a meeting.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that parcel of land in the Hawkins Survey District, Canterbury Land District, being Reserve No. 1565, containing 8 acres, more or less. Bounded northward by the road forming the southern boundary of Section No. 14096, eastward by Section No. 12627, southward by Section No. 12348, and westward by Reserve 1518.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prescribing Terms and Mode upon which the Alienation of certain Lands known collectively by the Name of Pohokura may be effected.
RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twelfth day of April, 1899.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor in Council.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section one hundred and twenty-six of "The Native Land Act, 1894," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby prescribe the terms and mode set out in the draft deed contained in the Schedule hereto as the terms and mode upon which the alienation of the lands therein mentioned may be effected.

SCHEDULE.
This deed, made the day of , 1899, between Te Wano Taungakore, Tare Toki, Ngahere te Pohe, Apiata Tanirau, Parakiri Hapimana, Pereri Harawena, and Kipa te Kohatu (hereinafter called "the committee"), of the first part, Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the second part, and Gerhard Mueller, Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District (hereinafter called "the Commissioner"), of the third part:
Whereas the said Te Wano Taungakore, Tare Toki, Ngahere te Pohe, Apiata Tanirau, Parakiri Hapimana, Pereri Harawena, and Kipa te Kohatu have been duly appointed a committee, under the provisions of Part II. of Division II. of "The Native Land Court Act, 1894," and regulations made by His Excellency the Governor thereunder, to administer the lands called or known as Pohokura Blocks Nos. 4A, 4B, 5, 6A, 6B, 6C, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, containing by admeasurement collectively about forty thousand (40,000) acres, be the same more or less, as the said blocks are more particularly described in the Schedule hereto and delineated on the plan drawn hereon: And whereas the said committee has, with the consent of the Commissioner, as testified by his having subscribed his name hereunto, contracted for the sale of the whole of the said lands to Her Majesty, subject to the condition hereinafter set forth: Now, this deed witnesseth that, in consideration of the sum of six thousand pounds (£6,000) paid by Her Majesty the Queen to the Public Trustee in terms of the said powers and regulations, the said committee do hereby transfer and set over unto Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, the whole of the lands described in the said Schedule and delineated on the plan drawn hereon; to hold the same unto Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, as an estate in fee-simple, freed and discharged from all manner of claims whatsoever and absolutely. And, in consideration of the premises, Her Majesty doth hereby covenant with the committee that her said Majesty shall, at the cost of the said committee, make a good and effectual grant of such parcel or parcels of the said Pohokura No. 7 Block, not exceeding in the aggregate eight hundred (800) acres, to include such Native village or villages as the Surveyor-General shall determine, as an absolutely inalienable reserve to and for such of the original Native owners of the said Pohokura Blocks, and as the Surveyor-General shall also determine.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council