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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 103

NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES.

Applications for Confirmation Certificates under Section 55.

Registrar’s Office, Wellington, 3rd December, 1907.

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.]
E. A. WELCH, Registrar.

THE ALIENATIONS ABOVE REFERRED TO.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Waipawa.

Registrar’s Office, Wellington, 4th December, 1907.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matter mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Waipawa on the 9th day of December, 1907, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.
[Wellington, 1907–61.]
E. A. WELCH, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR PARTITION.

Petition for Incorporation by the Owners of the Puaoteroku No. 1 Block.

IN THE NATIVE LAND COURT OF NEW ZEALAND, GISBORNE DISTRICT.

In the matter of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and its amendments, and of the petition for incorporation by the owners of the Puaoteroku No. 1 Block. At a sitting of the Court held at Gisborne, before Robert Noble Jones, Judge, and Hapi Kiniha, Assessor, on Friday, the 22nd day of November, 1907.

UPON reading the petition for incorporation lodged herein, and upon hearing W. Sievwright for the petitioners, and the evidence adduced on their behalf, and the Court being satisfied of the consent of the majority of the owners of the said Puaoteroku No. 1 Block, and that such block can be dealt with to the advantage of the owners thereof by being incorporated as hereinafter appearing, it is ordered that the owners whose names are set out in the Schedule hereunder written shall be and the same are hereby constituted a body corporate within the meaning of section 122 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” by the name of “The Proprietors of the Puaoteroku No. 1 Block,” subject to the powers, liabilities, and incidents conferred or imposed by the said Act or any amendments thereof. The said land contains 80 acres, or thereabouts, and is bounded as follows: Towards the north by Crown land (Sections Nos. 2 and 3), towards the east by the Mata River, towards the south by the Wetea Stream and the Mata River, and towards the west by the Wetea Stream and the Mata River.

And it is hereby ordered and directed that a general meeting of the proprietors of the said block shall be held at Tokomaru on Saturday, the 28th day of December, 1907, at the hour of 12 o’clock noon, for the purpose of nominating a committee to administer the said land, and fixing the number of its members.

And it is hereby further ordered that the committee shall have full power to defray the reasonable costs and expenses consequent upon this incorporation or incidental thereto, and that the title to the said land hereby vested in the corporate body above named shall be subject to all existing rights, alienations, encumbrances, and contracts affecting the same or any interest therein.

In witness whereof the seal of the said Court was hereto affixed, the day and year first above written.
R. N. JONES, Judge.

THE SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.

PUAOTEROKU NO. 1 BLOCK.

Kane Roki. Tangopaheka. Isabella Hamilton. Raymond George Porter.
Heni Roki. Fannie Rose Howie. Ada Dalrymple. Tanara Parata Waiti.
Hare Waikato. Thomas Richard Porter. Donald Kerr Porter. Puia Rata Rarere.
Mauahana Houkamau. Francois Henri Porter. Minnie Kathleen Perry.

In unequal shares according to their respective interests.