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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58
Maori Land Board of any other district, is hereby vested in the Maori Land Board of the district in which the land is so situated for all the right, title, estate, and interest of the first-mentioned Board therein and thereto, and all assets and liabilities held by or imposed upon the first-mentioned Board in respect of that land are hereby transferred to the Maori Land Board of the district in which the land is so situated.
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All the assets and liabilities of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board, save and except the assets and liabilities which are transferred to any other Board in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Order in Council, are hereby transferred to and vested in the Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board.
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This Order in Council shall come into operation on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten.
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SCHEDULES.
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FIRST SCHEDULE.
Tokerau Maori Land District.
ALL that area in the Dominion of New Zealand bounded towards the east generally by the sea from the North Cape to the north-western corner of Section No. 40A, Parish of Waitemata; thence by the western boundary of that section and of Sections Nos. 39A and 38A of the said parish to the Orakei Creek; thence by that creek and the south-eastern shore of Orakei Basin to the north-western corner of Lot 238, Section No. 16, Suburbs of Auckland; thence by the western boundary of that lot to its south-western corner; thence by a right line to the northern end of St. Ann’s Bridge, on the Manukau Harbour; thence towards the south generally by the northern shore of the Manukau Harbour to the Manukau Heads; thence towards the west by the sea to Cape Maria van Diemen; thence towards the north by the sea to the North Cape, the point of commencement: including Great Barrier Island and the islands adjacent to the coast-line between the Whangarei Harbour and the North Cape.
SECOND SCHEDULE.
Waiariki Maori Land District.
All that area in the Dominion of New Zealand bounded towards the south-east and south generally by the south-eastern and southern boundaries of the Auckland Land District (as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 58, 16th July, 1903, page 1600) from Potiki Rua to the north-western corner of Omupapamaro Block; thence by a right line to Ngapouatu Trig. Station; thence by the north-eastern boundary of Wharetoto Block to the Tirikahu Stream, by that stream and the Rangitaiki River to the northernmost corner of Wharetoto No. 9 Block; thence by the north-western boundaries of Wharetoto Nos. 9 and 8 Blocks to the easternmost corner of Tauhara South A Block; thence by the north-eastern boundaries of Tauhara South A and B Blocks to Lake Taupo; thence by a right line across Lake Taupo to the mouth of the Oruapuraho Stream; thence by the Oruapuraho Stream and the northern boundary of the Hauhungaroa Block to the western boundary of the Rangitoto-Tuhua Block; thence towards the west generally by the eastern boundary of the Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land District (as described in the Sixth Schedule hereto) to the sea at Ngakuriawhare; and thence towards the north generally by the sea to Potiki Rua, the place of commencement: including Motiti, Matakana, Motuhoa, Te Hapai, Mayor, White, and Whale Islands, and the adjacent islands.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
Tairawhiti Maori Land District.
All that area in the Dominion of New Zealand bounded towards the north-east by the sea, from Potiki Rua to the East Cape; thence towards the south-east and south by the sea to the mouth of the Mohaka River; thence by that river to its confluence with the Te Hoe Stream; thence towards the west generally by that stream, and by the south-eastern boundary of the Waiariki Maori Land District, hereinbefore described, to Potiki Rua, the point of commencement.
FOURTH SCHEDULE.
Aotea Maori Land District.
All that area in the Dominion of New Zealand bounded towards the north by the Waikato-Maniapoto and Waiariki Maori Land Districts (as described in the Sixth and Second Schedules hereto respectively) from Parininihi to the north-western corner of Omupapamaro Block; thence towards the east generally by part of the boundary of the Auckland Land District (as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 58, 16th July, 1903, page 1600) to the Mohaka River; thence by that river to the Mangatainoka Block; thence by the north-western boundary of that block to the Ngaruroro River; thence by the western boundary of the Hawke’s Bay Land District (as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 30, 28th April, 1898, page 689) to the south-eastern corner of Awarua 1A No. 3 South Block; thence towards the south-east generally by the southern boundary of that block to the Oroua River; thence by that river to the southern boundary of the Oroua Survey District; thence by that boundary to the Rangitoto Survey District; thence by the southern boundary of that survey district to the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Sections Nos. 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 22, 29, and 35, Te Kawa Survey District; thence by that road to its intersection with the road forming the northern boundary of Sections Nos. 39, 46, 47, 48, 49, and 50, Block II, of the said Te Kawa Survey District; thence by that road to the Rangitikei River; thence by that river to the sea; thence towards the south-west, west, and north-west generally by the sea to Parininihi, the place of commencement.
FIFTH SCHEDULE.
Ikaroa Maori Land District.
All that area in the Dominion of New Zealand bounded towards the north-west and north by the Aotea, Waiariki, and Tairawhiti Maori Land Districts, hereinbefore described; and towards the south-east, south, and west by the sea: including Kapiti Island.
SIXTH SCHEDULE.
Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land District.
All that area in the Dominion of New Zealand bounded towards the south generally from Parininihi by the confiscation-line and the southern boundary-lines of the Rohepotae Block to the Wanganui River; thence by that river to the confluence of the Pungapunga Stream with the Wanganui River; thence by the Pungapunga Stream to the eastern boundary of the Rangitoto-Tuhua Block; thence by the eastern boundary of the Rangitoto-Tuhua Block to the Ongarue River; thence by that river to the easternmost corner of Maraeroa C Block; thence by the north-eastern boundary of that block, the southern and eastern boundaries of Maraeroa B Block, and the south-eastern boundaries of Rangitoto B and Wharepuhunga Nos. 6, 8, 10, 13, 20, and 17 Blocks to the north-eastern corner of the last-named block; thence by a right line to the southernmost corner of Wharepuhunga No. 19 Block; thence by the south-eastern boundary of that block to the Waikato River; thence by the right bank of the said Waikato River to a point opposite the southernmost corner of Section No. 129 of the Matamata Settlement; thence crossing the Waikato River, and by the south-eastern boundary of the said Matamata Settlement to the Okoroire Stream; thence by that stream and the northern boundaries of Whaiti-Kuranui No. 6A No. 3c, Whaiti-Kuranui No. 6A No. 3e, Whaiti-Kuranui No. 6A No. 2, and Whaiti-Kuranui No. 6A No. 1 Blocks, and by the north-western boundary-line of Section No. 60, Block I, Tapapa East Survey District (scenic reserve), to the northernmost corner of that section; thence by the eastern boundaries of Matamata and Piako Counties (as described in the First and Second Schedules to the Matamata County Act, 1908) to the confiscation-boundary line at the north-eastern corner of Piako County; thence by the said confiscation-boundary line to the sea at Ngakuriawhare; thence towards the north-east and north generally by the sea to the southern boundary of the Tokerau Maori Land District, hereinbefore described; thence towards the north by that boundary to Manukau Heads; thence towards the west by the sea to Parininihi, the point of commencement: including Waiheke Island and the islands adjacent to the coast-line between Cape Colville and the Wharekawa Harbour.
J. F. ANDREWS;
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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Defining Maori Land Districts
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🪶 Māori Affairs13 June 1910
Maori Land Districts, Boundaries, Orders in Council, Native Land Act 1909, Tokerau, Waiariki, Tairawhiti, Aotea, Ikaroa, Waikato-Maniapoto
- J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council
NZ Gazette 1910, No 58