SEPT. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1929

APPLICATIONS UNDER SECTION 78 OF “THE NATIVE LAND COURT ACT, 1894,” TO ASCERTAIN THE INTEREST ACQUIRED BY OR ON BEHALF OF HIS MAJESTY.

LAND REFERRED TO THE NATIVE LAND COURT FOR INQUIRY UNDER SECTION 14 OF “THE NATIVE LAND COURT ACT, 1894.”

In pursuance of an Order in Council, dated as under, authorising the Native Land Court to exercise its jurisdiction under subsection (10) of section 14 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in respect of the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto, and to determine whether the said land or any part thereof was, on the investigation of title thereto, intended by the Native Land Court, or by the nominal owner or owners of such land, to be held by such nominal owner or owners in trust for Natives not named in the title, and to determine who are the Natives (if any) entitled beneficially to such land, and to order the inclusion of such Natives in the title, either together with or in lieu of the nominal owners or any of them, and for the purpose aforesaid to order the cancellation or amendment of any existing instrument of title, and the issue of such new Crown grant or other instrument of title as may be necessary, and generally to exercise in respect of the said land all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Native Land Court by subsection (10) of section 14 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

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PIRITARAU No. 1b.

WHEREAS by an interim decree of the Validation Court dated the 28th day of February, 1899, it was ordered and declared that William Milner, as assign of Sir George Whitmore, is entitled to an estate in fee-simple in possession in all that piece of land, containing in the aggregate two acres, more or less, known as Piritarau No. 1b, of the undivided shares formerly held by the undermentioned persons,

Hera Heihi Wi Haereroa, and
Eru Hauraki Te Raana te Ao,

being four-fifths of the area of the said two acres :

And whereas it was also ordered and declared by the said interim decree that Thomas Reedy, as the assign of the said Sir George Whitmore, is entitled to an estate in fee-simple in possession in the said Piritarau No. 1b Block, being one-fifth of the said two acres, and being the undivided shares formerly held by William Baker Milner and Elizabeth Milner, as successors to Rawinia Mirina :

And whereas it was directed by the said interim decree that the Native Land Court should apportion the respective shares and interests claimed by William Milner and Thomas Reedy :

Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of the direction contained in the said interim decree, the Native Land Court will, during the sitting herein notified, ascertain, according to the requirements of section 24 of “The Native Land Validation of Titles Act, 1893,” and the course and practice of the Native Land Court, the land to be apportioned for the said interests as aforesaid.

APPLICATION TO CONSTITUTE OWNERS A BODY CORPORATE AND APPOINT A COMMITTEE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 122, 123, AND 124 OF “THE NATIVE LAND COURT ACT, 1894.”

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