Land Claims Decisions




[Re-printed from the New Zealand Gazette, December 11.]

Land Claims Office,
New Plymouth, 2nd December, 1863.

HENRY ROBERT RICHMOND,
a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue
of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legislative Council of the Islands
of New Zealand, to hear and decide claims to land by persons claiming title thereto
from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, Report that the Claims of the
persons whose names appear in the Schedule hereto, having been duly referred to
me for investigation, I do hereby decide that the said persons are respectively entitled to the Crown Grants set against their names in the said Schedule.

H. R. RICHMOND,
Commissioner.


SCHEDULE

No. of Report. No. of Claim. Name of Claimant. Commissioner’s Decision.
725 28 John Litchfield Newman Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 4, Omata District.
726 107 Richard Chilman Entitled to a Grant of 30 acres 2 roods (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 770, Grey District.
727 108 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of 15 acres 2 roods (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 512, Grey District.
728 119 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of 9 acres 1 rood 20 perches (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 499, Grey District.
729 121 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 768, and 40 acres 1 rood (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 500, Grey District.
730 185 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 511, Grey District.
731 186 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of 16 acres 1 rood 20 perches (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 511a, Grey District.
732 187 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 511b, and of 5 acres 2 roods 20 perches (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 768a, Grey District.
733 206 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 769, Grey District.
734 655 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of 16 acres 2 roods (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 488, Grey District.
735 26 Thomas Kingwell Skinner Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 486, Grey District.
736 767 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 485a, Grey District.
737 1043 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 497, Grey District.
738 506 Benjamin Wells and Zaccheus William Wells Entitled to a Grant of 24 acres 30 perches (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 775, Grey District.
739 876 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of 25 acres (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 775, Grey District.
740 508 James Dingle Entitled to a Grant of Rural Allotment No. 480, Grey District.
741 509 Ditto Entitled to a Grant of 40 acres (more or less) of Rural Allotment No. 493, Grey District.


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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1864, No 3





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🗺️ Land Claims Decisions by Commissioner

🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey
2 December 1863
Land Claims, Crown Grants, New Plymouth, Grey District, Omata District
6 names identified
  • John Litchfield Newman, Entitled to Crown Grant
  • Richard Chilman, Entitled to Crown Grant
  • Thomas Kingwell Skinner, Entitled to Crown Grant
  • Benjamin Wells, Entitled to Crown Grant
  • Zaccheus William Wells, Entitled to Crown Grant
  • James Dingle, Entitled to Crown Grant

  • Henry Robert Richmond, Commissioner