JULY 2.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

1805

Sitting of the Native Appellate Court at Hastings.

Registrar’s Office, Wellington, 1st July, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Appellate Court will be held at Hastings on the 24th day of July, 1908, to hear and determine the appeals against the decisions of the Native Land Court set forth in the Schedule hereto. All persons interested in the said appeal are hereby notified to attend at the time and place aforesaid.

[Wellington, 1908-27.]

E. A. WELCH, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPEALS.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Levin.

Registrar’s Office, Wellington, 26th June, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matter mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Levin on the 7th day of July, 1908, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Wellington, 1908-26.]

E. A. WELCH, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR PARTITION.

Petition for Incorporation by the Owners of the Whakaongaonga 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 Whakaongaonga No. 1 Block. At a sitting of the Court held at Gisborne, before Robert Noble Jones, Judge, and Hapi Kiniha, Assessor, on Thursday, the 18th day of June, 1908.

UPON reading the petition for incorporation lodged herein, and upon hearing Wetini Rikirangi 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 Whakaongaonga 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 Whakaongaonga 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 909 acres, or thereabouts, and is bounded as follows: Towards the north by Section 1, Block XIII, Patutahi (2,293 acres); towards the south and east by the Mangapoike A Block (16,460 acres); and towards the west by the Whakaongaonga No. 2E Block (592 acres 1 rood 24 perches).

And it is hereby ordered and directed that a general meeting of the proprietors of the said block shall be held at the Native Land Court House, Gisborne, on Saturday, the 25th day of July, 1908, at the hour of 11 o’clock in the forenoon, 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.