New Zealand Gazette – 1903 – No. 51

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✨ Maori Land Council Appointments

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

Further extending Period within which Commissioners under Section 18 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” shall report.

Edward VII., by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith.

To Hugh Garden Seth-Smith, Esquire, Barrister, and Hone Heke and Alfred Levavasour Durell Fraser, Esquires, Members of the House of Representatives, and to all to whom these presents shall come: Greeting.

WHEREAS by a Commission bearing date the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and two, and issued under the provisions of section eighteen of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), you, the said

HUGH GARDEN SETH-SMITH,
HONE HEKE, and
ALFRED LEVAVASOUR DURELL FRASER,

were appointed Commissioners to hear and determine disputes respecting ownership and boundaries of the Awanui-Haparapara Block, containing one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven acres; the Maraehako Block, containing one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four acres; the Tunapahore Block, containing five thousand four hundred and forty-nine acres; and the subdivisions of the Kapuarangi Block known as Kapuarangi West, containing nine thousand acres, Kapuarangi No. 1a, containing five hundred acres, Kapuarangi No. 1b, containing two thousand nine hundred acres, and Kapuarangi No. 3, containing ten thousand five hundred and forty-nine acres—be all the aforesaid acreages more or less:

And whereas by the said Commission you were required to transmit to me, under your hands and seals, your decisions, orders, and opinions resulting from such investigations and inquiries not later than the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two, or such extended date as may be appointed in that behalf:

And whereas by a Commission bearing date the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and two, the time at or before which you were to present to me your report as aforesaid was extended to the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three:

And whereas it has been represented that, in order to enable you the more properly to fulfil the duties intrusted to you, it is expedient to further extend the period within which you are required to report your proceedings touching the said premises:

Know ye, therefore, that I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby further extend the period within which you shall (using all diligence) transmit to me, as by the said Commission provided, your decisions, orders, and opinions as aforesaid to the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three. And with the like advice and consent, and in further pursuance and exercise of the said powers and authorities, I do hereby confirm the said Commission except as altered by these presents.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused these presents to be issued under the seal of the said colony, at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three.

Witness our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Cousin Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Knight Grand Cross of our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our Colony of New Zealand.

RANFURLY,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command.
J. CARROLL,
Minister in Charge of Native Affairs.

Approved in Council.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

God save the King!

Resignation of President of Council under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” accepted.