Jan. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 215

Applications for Confirmation Certificates under Section 55.

Registrar’s Office, Wellington, 20th January, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that applications have been made to a Judge of the Court for certificates under section 55 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” confirming the alienations hereunder specified. All objections to the granting of such certificates must be lodged with me within fourteen days from the publication of this notice.

[Wellington, Sec. 55.]

R. C. SIM, Registrar.

THE ALIENATIONS ABOVE REFERRED TO.

Native Land Court Agent licensed.

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT, NEW ZEALAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that a license has been issued to the undermentioned person authorising him to appear as an agent in the Native Land Court for the year ending the 31st day of December, 1903, subject to the provisions of section 20 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” viz.:

PEPA TAUKE.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of January, 1902.

R. C. SIM, Registrar.

Order under Section 39 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the matter of the interest of Mahanga, deceased, in the Hapotiki Block, and of the application of Heretaniwha under section 39 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the said application was referred by me to the Native Land Court for inquiry and report, and the same has been duly reported on: And whereas, by order dated the 25th day of January, 1888, the Native Land Court, on the application of Kuini Rangipupu, appointed her sole successor to the interest of the said Mahanga in the Hapotiki Block: And whereas the said appointment was made with the assent of Haupuhiroa, the person entitled according to Maori custom to succeed to one-half of the said interest: And whereas in allowing the said Haupuhiroa to deprive himself of his right of succession the Court wrongly decided a point of law, the land being inalienable under the provisions of “The West Coast Settlements Reserves Act, 1892”: And whereas the applicant has, by the making of the said order, been deprived of any right of succession she might have in respect of the said interest as one of the children of Haupuhiroa:

Now, therefore, for the purpose of rectifying the said error, and in exercise of the powers in that behalf vested in me as Chief Judge of the Native Land Court by section 39 aforesaid, I hereby order that the said order of the 25th day of January, 1888, be amended by adding thereto the name of the said Haupuhiroa as one of the successors to the interest of the said Mahanga in the Hapotiki Block, to the intent that the said Haupuhiroa and Kuini Rangipupu shall succeed to the said interest in equal shares.

As witness my hand, this 14th day of January, 1903.

GEO. B. DAVY, Chief Judge.

Order under Section 39 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the matter of the interest of Pikau, deceased, in the Hapotiki Block, and of the application of Heretaniwha under section 39 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the said application was referred by me to the Native Land Court for inquiry and report, and the same has been duly reported on: And whereas by an order dated the 23rd day of January, 1888, the Native Land Court, on the application of Kuini Rangipupu, appointed her sole successor to the interest of the said Pikau in the Hapotiki Block: And whereas the said appointment was made with the assent of Haupuhiroa, the father of the said Pikau, who was the person entitled according to Maori custom to succeed to the said interest: And whereas in allowing the said Haupuhiroa to deprive himself of his right of succession, the Court wrongly decided a point of law, the land being inalienable under the provisions of “The West Coast Settlements Reserves Act, 1892”: And whereas the applicant has, by the making of the said order, been deprived of any right of succession she might have in respect of the said interest as one of the children of the said Haupuhiroa:

Now, therefore, for the purpose of rectifying the said error, and in exercise of the power in that behalf vested in me as Chief Judge of the Native Land Court under section 39 aforesaid, I hereby order that the said order of the 23rd day of January, 1888, be amended by substituting the name of Haupuhiroa for that of Kuini Rangipupu as sole successor to the interest of Pikau in the land therein mentioned.

As witness my hand, this 14th day of January, 1903.

GEO. B. DAVY, Chief Judge.

Order under Section 39 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the matter of the interest of Tukoukou, deceased, in the Hapotiki and Ngatihawe Blocks, Taranaki District, and of the application of Heretaniwha under section 39 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the above application was referred by me to the Native Land Court for inquiry and report, and the same has been duly reported on: And whereas by two several orders, dated the 6th day of September, 1887, the Native Land Court appointed four persons—viz., Te Ami, Pikau, Ngawira, and Kuini Rangipupu—to succeed to the interest of the said Tukoukou in the said blocks: And whereas the three first-named successors and the applicant are children of Haupuhiroa, a brother of the said Tukoukou: And whereas the said Haupuhiroa was living at the date of the making of the said orders, and also at the date of the said inquiry, and is the person entitled according to Maori custom to succeed to one half-share of the interest of the said Tukoukou in the said blocks: And whereas in making the said orders the Court appears to have acted under the belief that the said Haupuhiroa was then deceased: And whereas the applicant has by reason of the said orders been deprived of any right of succession to the said interest which might accrue to her as a child of the said Haupuhiroa:

Now, therefore, for the purpose of rectifying the said error, and in exercise of the powers in that behalf vested in me as Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, and by section 39 aforesaid, I hereby order that the said orders of the 6th day of September, 1887, be amended by substituting the name of Haupuhiroa for the names of Te Ami, Pikau, and Ngawira as successor to one half-share of the interest of Tukoukou in the lands therein mentioned.

As witness my hand, this 14th day of January, 1903.

GEO. B. DAVY, Chief Judge.