New Zealand Gazette – 1910 – No. 58

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✨ Maori Land Districts Order



Humb. 58.

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1910.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1910.

Order in Council defining Maori Land Districts under the
Native Land Act, 1909.
ROBERT STOUT.
Administrator of the Government.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth
day of June, 1910.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section sixty-one of the Native Land
Act, 1909, it is provided that the Governor may
from time to time, by Order in Council, alter the bound-
aries or change the names of Maori land districts, or
increase or reduce the number of those districts: And
whereas by section eighty-three of the Native Land Act,
1909, it is provided that when any Maori land district
is created or abolished, or when the boundaries of any
Maori land district are altered, the Governor may, by
Order in Council, make such order as he thinks fit for
vesting in the Board of any district any Native land
situated in that district and vested in any other Board,
or for the transfer from one Board to another of any of
the assets or liabilities of the former Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the
Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance
and exercise of the powers so conferred upon him, and
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and de-
clare as follows :—

  1. The boundaries of the Tokerau Maori Land District
    shall be those set out in the First Schedule hereto.
  2. The boundaries of the Waiariki Maori Land District
    shall be those set out in the Second Schedule hereto.
  3. The boundaries of the Tairawhiti Maori Land District
    shall be those set out in the Third Schedule hereto.
  4. The boundaries of the Aotea Maori Land District
    shall be those set out in the Fourth Schedule hereto.
  5. The boundaries of the Ikaroa Maori Land District
    shall be those set out in the Fifth Schedule hereto.
  6. The name of the Waikato Maori Land District is
    hereby changed, and the said district shall be known as
    the Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land District.
  7. The boundaries of the said Waikato-Maniapoto Maori
    Land District shall be those set out in the Sixth Schedule
    hereto.
  8. The Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa Maori Land District is
    hereby abolished.
  9. All Native land which is situated within the bound-
    aries of any Maori land district as determined by this
    Order in Council, and which at the date of the coming
    into operation of this Order in Council is vested in the


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🪶 Defining Maori Land Districts

🪶 Māori Affairs
13 June 1910
Maori Land Districts, Boundaries, Orders in Council, Native Land Act 1909, Tokerau, Waiariki, Tairawhiti, Aotea, Ikaroa, Waikato-Maniapoto
  • Robert Stout, Administrator of the Government