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3483

SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915.

Commission to inquire into a Claim made by certain Natives to an Area of Land at Waiau, Southland.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to CHARLES EDWARD MACCORMICK, Esquire, Judge of the Native Land Court, and WALTER EDWARD RAWSON, Esquire, Judge of the Native Land Court: Greeting.

WHEREAS it is expedient that an inquiry should be held regarding a claim made by certain Natives to an area of land situated on the west bank of the Waiau River, in Alton Survey District, in the Southland Land District:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby constitute and appoint you the said

CHARLES EDWARD MACCORMICK and

WALTER EDWARD RAWSON

to be a Commission to inquire into the said claim, and in particular—

(1.) To ascertain whether the award made at Dunedin by Judge Fenton on the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, as recorded on page 59 of the South Island Native Land Court Minute-book No. 1A has been satisfied;

(2.) If such award has been satisfied, to ascertain the land which was granted in satisfaction thereof;

(3.) To ascertain the award or the authority for the grant of the block of land known as the Tautuku Native Reserve, situated in Block IX, Tautuku Survey District, in the Otago Land District;

(4.) To ascertain the authority for the original withholding from sale of the block of land situated on the west bank of the Waiau River, in the Alton Survey District, in the Southland Land District, containing approximately one thousand acres.

And, with the like advice and consent, I do hereby appoint you the said CHARLES EDWARD MACCORMICK to be Chairman of the said Commission.

And for the better enabling you the said Commission to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorized and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and from place to place as you think fit, and to call before you and examine on oath or otherwise such person or persons as you think capable of affording information in these premises.

And you are also empowered to call for and examine all such books, maps, or records as you deem likely to afford you the fullest information on the subject-matter of the inquiry hereby directed to be made.

And, using all diligence, you are required to report to me under your hand within forty days from the date of these presents the result of your inquiry, with any recommendations you may think fit to make in the premises.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Issued in Executive Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.