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[Reprinted from General Government Gazette.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th April, 1865.

Notifications to Claimants for Compensation under authority of “The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863.”

WHEREAS by Orders in Council made under the authority of Sections 3 and 4 of “The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863,” His Excellency the Governor has declared that certain lands belonging to Rebellious Tribes, were required for the purposes of the said Act, and were subject to the provisions thereof: And whereas it is provided by the said Act that compensation shall be granted to all persons who shall have any title, interest, or claim to any Lands taken under the said Act, provided always that no compensation shall be granted to any of the persons following—that is to say, to any person.

(1.) Who shall, since the 1st of January, 1863, have been engaged in levying or making war, or carrying arms against Her Majesty the Queen, or Her Majesty’s Forces in New Zealand; or,

(2.) Who shall have adhered to, aided, assisted, or comforted, any such persons as aforesaid; or,

(3.) Who, shall have counselled, advised, induced, enticed, persuaded, or conspired with any other person to make or levy war against Her Majesty’s Forces in New Zealand, or to join with or assist any such persons as are before mentioned in sub-sections (1) and (2); or,

(4.) Who, in furtherance or in execution of the designs of any such persons as aforesaid, shall have been, either as principal or accessory, concerned in any outrage against person or property; or,

(5.) Who, on being required by the Governor, by Proclamation to that effect in the Government Gazette, to deliver up the arms in their possession, shall refuse or neglect to comply with such demand after a certain day to be specified in such Proclamation.

And it is further provided that compensation shall be granted accordingly to the nature of the title, interest, or claim of the person requiring compensation, and according to the value thereof: Provided always that no claim shall be entertained unless the same shall have been preferred in writing to the Colonial Secretary by the Claimant, if residing in the Colony, within six months, and if not residing within the Colony then within eighteen months, after the Land in respect of which the claim is made has been proclaimed under Section 4 as required for the purposes of this Act.

Now, therefore, it is hereby notified, that such claims for compensation arising prior to the taking of any of the Lands comprised within the limits referred to in the said Orders in Council, and hereunder described or referred to, shall be sent in to the Colonial Secretary, addressed to him at Wellington, within the periods respectively prescribed, as before mentioned.

FRED. A. WELD.

NOTE.—Forms of Claims may be obtained at the Office of Native Land Court, in Auckland, or from any Resident Magistrate or Native Assessor.

LANDS ABOVE REFERRED TO.

SCHEDULE.

East Wairoa Block.

All that land known as East Wairoa Block, bounded on the North by the Wairoa River and the Northern boundary of the lands intended to be confiscated, as set forth in the Proclamation of 17th December, 1864; on the East by the Eastern boundary of such confiscated lands; on the South by the Mangatawhiri River, from the Surry Redoubt to the Eastern boundary of the Pokeno Block, as described in the Proclamation of the 29th December, 1864; and on the West by the said Pokeno Block.

West Pukekohe Block.

All that land known as the West Pukekohe Block, supposed to contain 1133 acres: Bounded on the North by lot No. 38, Parish of Pukekohe, 7,100 links; on the East by the Pukekohe Native Reserve, 80,084 links; on the South by lot 44, Parish of Pukekohe, 2,160 links; and on the West by lot No. 78, Parish of Pukekohe, 2,640 links; and by a road 28,030 links to commence point.

Middle Taranaki.

All that Block of land at Taranaki, bounded on the North and West by the Sea, on the East by the Waitara river from its mouth to the junction of the Manganui river, and by the Manganui from the Waitara to the crossing place of the Kairoa and Waimate road, thence by the South of the said road to its junction with the Wanganui and Taranaki coast road, and thence by a straight line from the said junction of roads to the sea at its nearest point.

Excepting all lands within the said boundaries held under Grant from the Crown.