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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

Notifying Transfer of Maori Lands to the Aotea District Maori Land Board.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the twentieth section of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1904,” it is enacted that when any land has been transferred to the Council under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” the Governor shall publish in the Gazette and Kahiti a notice of the transfer, a description of the land, and the conditions upon which it has been transferred; and the Registrar, upon being served with such notice and copies of the Gazette and Kahiti in which it is published, together with the orders of the Court or the Council (if any) determining the ownership of the land, and all succession orders affecting the same, shall register the Council as the proprietor of the land, and shall record the said orders as notice of a trust on behalf of the Natives named therein, as provided by section one hundred and twenty-two of “The Land Transfer Act, 1885,” and the Council shall thereupon hold and administer such land, subject to the said conditions and trust: Provided that no lease equivalent to a lease in perpetuity as defined by “The Land Act, 1892,” shall be granted by the Council without the consent of the Governor on its being shown to his satisfaction that the land is of such inferior quality or is so situated as not to be disposable on any other tenure:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities in me vested by the said twentieth section of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1904,” and otherwise howsoever, do hereby notify that the Maori lands mentioned and described in the first column of the Schedule hereto have been transferred, under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its amendments, to the Aotea District Maori Land Board as the successor in office of the said Council.

SCHEDULE.

FIRST COLUMN.

Name and Description of Land transferred to the Aotea District Maori Land Board.

Otiranui No. 2 Block, containing 515 acres, or thereabouts, situated in Block XII, Makotuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Otiranui No. 3 Block; towards the south by the Ohotu Block; and towards the west by the Otiranui No. 1 Block.

Otiranui No. 3 Block, containing 801 acres 3 roods 12 perches, situated in Block XII, Makotuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by the Otiranui No. 4 Block; towards the south-west by the Otiranui No. 2 Block; and towards the west by the Otiranui No. 1 Block.

Ngapakihi Block, containing 2,480 acres, situated in Block VII, Makotuku Survey District, in the Wellington Land District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 1, Block VII, Makotuku Survey District, and by Raetihi No. 2B Block; towards the south-east by the Mangawhero River; and towards the south-west, west, and north-west by the Makotuku Stream.

Waharangi No. 1 Block, containing 709 acres, or thereabouts, situated in Block XIV, Rarete Survey District. Bounded generally towards the north by the Waharangi No. 2 Block; towards the south-east by the Otaranoho and Ohoutahi Blocks; and towards the west generally by the Whanganui River.

Waharangi No. 2 Block, containing 1,928 acres, or thereabouts, situated in Blocks XI and XIV, Rarete Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Subdivisions 3 and 4 of the Waharangi Block; towards the east by the Otaranoho Block; towards the south by the Waharangi No. 1 Block; and towards the west by the Whanganui River.

Waharangi No. 3 Block, containing 113 acres, or thereabouts, situated in Block X, Rarete Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the Kaukore Stream; towards the east by the Waharangi No. 4 Block; towards the south by the Waharangi No. 2 Block; and towards the west by the Whanganui River.

Waharangi No. 4 Block, containing 5,622 acres, or thereabouts, situated in Blocks VIII, XI, and XII, Rarete Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Waharangi No. 5 Block; towards the west and south-west by the Morikau No. 2 Block; towards the south by the Otaranoho and Waharangi No. 2 Blocks; towards the south-west by the Waharangi No. 3 Block; towards the west by the Pipiriki Native Township; and towards the north-west by the Waharangi No. 6 Block.

Waharangi No. 5 Block, containing 3,725 acres, or thereabouts, situated in Blocks VIII, IX, XI, and XII, Rarete Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the Ngaporo and Huikumu-Poutahi Blocks; towards the east by the Mangoihe Stream and Morikau No. 2 Block; and towards the south and west by Waharangi Blocks Nos. 4 and 6.

Morikau No. 2 Block, containing 14,066 acres, or thereabouts, situated in Blocks IX, XII, and XV, Rarete Survey District, and Blocks V, IX, and XIII, Makotuku Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Mangoihe, Aramahoe, and Raumangomango Streams; thence generally towards the east by Section 2, Block V, and Sections 6, 2, and 3, Block IX, Makotuku Survey District, the Ararimu, Mangoihe, and Pongatawhao Streams, and Sections 9, 7, 5, 4, and 3, Block IX, Makotuku Survey District, and the Mangaetoroa Stream to the Kopua Stream; thence generally towards the south by the Kopua and Waipapa Streams and Mairehau Block, Marihopi and Mangoihe Streams to the Horomia Stream; thence towards the south-west by the Horomia Stream; and thence generally towards the north-west by the Otaranoho Block and Waharangi Nos. 4 and 5 Blocks.

SECOND COLUMN.

Conditions upon which the Land has been transferred.

1. To lay off and lease as a Native township any area not exceeding 500 acres, and, after reserving and rendering inalienable such further portion of the said land as may be required for the occupation and support of the Maori owners thereof, or for burial-grounds, eel-pas or eel-weirs, fishing-grounds, or as reserves for the protection of native birds, or the conservation of timber and fuel for the future use of the Maori owners, to lease by public tender the balance of the said land or any part or parts thereof, or any easement, right, or privilege over or in relation to the same, for any term not exceeding forty-two years, to take effect in possession, at the best rent or rents that can reasonably be obtained, and in the case of a lease for any period not exceeding twenty-one years, with or without covenant for renewal for a further term not exceeding twenty-one years, and subject to such other covenants, conditions, and agreements as the Board may deem proper.

2. To manage the said land in all respects as the Board may consider advantageous or advisable in the interests of the Maori owners, and to make such improvements upon the premises as in the opinion of the Board shall be necessary or advisable.

3. To make allowances to and arrangements with tenants, and to accept a surrender of any lease or tenancy for the time being affecting the whole or any part of the said land, and so that if any lease shall be granted under the aforesaid powers, on the surrender of a then-existing or prior lease or tenancy the value of the interest surrendered, or compensation for improvements or otherwise in respect of such lease or tenancy, may be taken into account in fixing the rent and other terms of the new lease.

4. To enter into, alter, vary, and rescind agreements for or in relation to the exercise of the said powers of leasing, and to agree to the apportionment of an entire rent between different parts of the property to be leased, and so that on such apportionment being made the requirement that the best yearly rent or rents be reserved shall apply to the aggregate of the rents reserved by the said leases, and not to the rents reserved by any one lease; but no lease to be granted in pursuance of any such agreement shall be granted for a longer term than could have been granted at the date of such agreement.

5. To borrow money on the security of the said land, or a definite part thereof, to such extent and on such terms in all respects as the Council thinks fit, and, should the Council see fit, to apply the net proceeds so borrowed in or towards discharging valid mortgages or survey-charging liens and other bona fide valid expenses or debts of the Maori owners incurred within the six years preceding the passing of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” in perfecting the title to the said land, or to any other lands owned by the same Maoris, and to apply the balance in cutting up, surveying, roading, opening up, preparing, and advertising such lands for lease, or generally improving such land or any other land of the same owners.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.