Dec. 15] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2807

day of the date hereof the parts of the Paraparaumu Beach Domain
described in the Schedule hereto shall cease to be subject to Part II
of the said Act, and shall be Crown lands available for disposal by
way of sale for cash under the Land Act, 1948.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

Lot 24, D.P. 11200, being part Section 5, Wainui District, situated
in Block II, Paekakariki Survey District: Area, 1 rood 14·4 perches,
more or less.

Lot 49, D.P. 9507, being parts Sections 1 and 2, Wainui District,
situated in Block I, Paekakariki Survey District: Area, 2 roods
30 perches, more or less.

Lot 11, D.P. 11363, being part Section 22, Wainui District,
situated in Block II, Paekakariki Survey District: Area, 32 perches,
more or less.

Lot 10, D.P. 11617, being part Section 5, Wainui District,
situated in Block II, Paekakariki Survey District: Area, 36·68
perches, more or less.

Lot 92, D.P. 12298, being parts Sections 3 and 4, Wainui District,
situated in Block I, Paekakariki Survey District: Area, 1 acre
0 roods 5·42 perches, more or less.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. H.O. 1/953 ; D.O. 8/329.)

Setting Apart Maori Land as a Maori Reservation

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of
December, 1949

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section five of the Maori Purposes Act, 1937,
His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby set
apart and reserve the Maori freehold land described in the Schedule
hereto as a Maori reservation for the use of the adherents of the
Ratana faith as a church site.

SCHEDULE

Block. Area. Survey District.
A. R. P.
Mangamuka West 3r 1 . . 0 2 0 Block XIV, Maungataniwha.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(M.A. 21/3/192.)

Setting Apart Maori Land as a Maori Reservation

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 6th day of
December, 1949

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section five of the Maori Purposes Act, 1937,
His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby set
apart and reserve the Maori freehold land described in the Schedule
hereto as a Maori reservation for the common use of the Ngati
Whiti Tribe as a marae and meeting-place.

SCHEDULE

Block. Area. Survey District.
A. R. P.
Awarua 2c 13L (part) . . 4 0 2·7 . . VII, Ohinewairua.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(M.A. 21/3/201.)

Officers Authorized to Take and Receive Statutory Declarations

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-
hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act,
1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and
declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule
hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices
stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are
authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the
three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act,
1927.

SCHEDULE

Frederick Charles McCullough, District Officer, Department
of Scientific and Industrial Research, Auckland.

Clyde Owen Clinton, District Officer, Department of Scientific
and Industrial Research, Christchurch.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 7th day of December, 1949.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Royal Commission to Inquire Into and Report Upon Claims Preferred
by Certain Maori Claimants Concerning the Payment of Certain
Moneys by the Aotea District Maori Land Board in Respect of the
West Taupo Timber Lands, the Tarawera and Tatarakina
Blocks, the Mohaka Block, and the Opouturi Block

GEORGE THE SIXTH by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Northern
Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King,
Defender of the Faith :

To Our Trusty and Well-beloved Counsellor, SIR MICHAEL
MYERS, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, and to Our
Trusty and Well-beloved subjects, HUBERT MAXWELL
CHRISTIE, of Wellington, Company Director, and RICHARD
ORMSBY, of Te Kuiti, Farmer : GREETING :

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 14 of the Maori Purposes Act,
1935, the Aotea District Maori Land Board paid to the
Egmont Box Company, Limited, a sum of £23,500 in terms of the
said section :

And whereas it is provided by the said section that the aforesaid
sum together with certain costs and expenses shall be deemed to be a
loan to the owners, including the Crown, of the whole of the lands
described and referred to in a certain deed of agreement bearing date
the 23rd day of December, 1908, made between the Maniapoto-
Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Board of the one part and the
Tongariro Timber Company, Limited, of the other part, excepting
such portions of the said lands as have been actually transferred to
the Tongariro Timber Company, Limited, for an estate in fee simple :

And whereas it is further provided by the said section that upon
payment of such sum as is therein referred to the said Board shall
by virtue of the said reciting Act and as security for the repayment
of the moneys hereinbefore referred to, and together with interest
thereon, be deemed to have a charge upon the said lands and the
revenue therefrom, excepting any of such land or any interest
therein acquired or owned by the Crown :

And whereas the said section makes provision for the apportion-
ment of the liability for the repayment of the said loan-moneys as
between the Crown and the Maori owners of the said lands and as
between certain blocks of land therein referred to :

And whereas certain Maoris have contended that if by the
operation of the said section they are rendered liable for the repay-
ment of the said moneys, or any part thereof, they ought not to
have been so rendered liable, and that their lands should not have
been made subject to any charge as security for the repayment of
the said moneys, or any part thereof :

And whereas, pursuant to section 38 of the Maori Land Amend-
ment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1924, and section 46
of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment
Act, 1928, certain amendments were made by the Maori Land Court
in the titles to certain subdivisions of the lands formerly known as
the Tarawera and Tatarakina Blocks :

And whereas certain Maoris claim to have suffered an injustice
by reason of the amendments aforesaid, on the grounds, amongst
others, that the said lands had been awarded to their predecessors
in title pursuant to an agreement dated the 13th day of July, 1870,
made between the Crown and certain Maoris :

And whereas by a certain deed bearing date the 5th day of
December, 1851, certain Maoris whose names were thereto subscribed,
did thereby, in consideration of the payment of the sum therein
mentioned, sell and entirely give up to Her Majesty the Queen the
land known as the Mohaka Block, the boundaries of which were set
forth in the said deed and delineated on a map thereunto attached :

And whereas the sale of the said Mohaka Block to the Crown
has been impugned by certain Maoris claiming to be descended
from persons entitled to interests in the said block, upon the grounds,
amongst others, that the great majority of the persons who sub-
scribed their names to, or made their marks upon, the said deed
had no proprietary rights whatsoever to the said block ; that those
who were entitled to sell their interests and did so sell their interests
in the said block were not the only owners thereof and had no power
or authority to cede the interests of the owners therein ; that the
deed of cession was not properly executed ; and that the purchase
price paid by the Crown for the said block was inadequate :

And whereas on the 25th day of April, 1871, a Crown grant was
issued in the names of certain Maoris in respect of the land known as
Opouturi Block :

And whereas on the 17th day of June, 1884, the Commissioner
of Crown Lands for the Land District of Auckland executed a
declaration to the effect that the said Opouturi Block, among others,
had been purchased by and conveyed to the Crown in the year 1871
and that the deed of conveyance to Her Majesty the Queen had been
destroyed by fire in or about the year 1872 :

And whereas the said Opouturi Block has for many years been
deemed to be Crown land and has been administered as such :

And whereas certain Maoris have, in a number of petitions
to Parliament, contended that a portion only of the said Opouturi
Block was sold to the Crown and that the residue of the said block
should be returned to the original Maori grantees or their descendants
or representatives :

And whereas the Government is desirous that the truth and
justice of the respective claims and complaints of the Maoris as
hereinbefore set forth should be tested by inquiry so that, if such
complaints be well founded and of substance, the Government will
be able to take order for the redress of the grievances laid upon the
Maoris :