TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

Commission Amendment Act Amendment Act, 1867," did appoint Josiah Flight and John Stephenson Smith, both of New Plymouth, aforesaid, Esquires, to inquire into and investigate and examine all or any exchanges made or purporting to be made under the provisions of "The Town of New Plymouth Compensation Ordinance, 1859," or the Town of New Plymouth Consolidation Ordinance, 1859," and whether made, between and by the Superintendent of the Province of Taranaki and other persons, being owners of lands as in the said Ordinances or either of them mentioned, or by the said Superintendent and the Commissioner of Crown Lands where neither such other persons or any person authorised to act on their behalf could be found, or whether made or purporting to be made provisionally, either with the consent of such other persons or without their consent, and whether made or purporting to be made before or after the expiration of the last mentioned of the said Ordinances; and in all cases as aforesaid in which it should appear to the said Commissioners that it would be for the mutual benefit of the parties concerned that such exchanges or any of them should be confirmed in whole or in part, to confirm the same accordingly; to inquire into, investigate, and examine all dealings with, and contracts for and in relation to conveyances of lands, the subject of any exchanges or exchanges in the said first recited Act mentioned, since the eighteenth day of August, 1859, and to ascertain and determine the persons who by virtue of such dealings, contracts, and conveyances are the legal or equitable owners of the lands which have been the subjects of such exchanges, and that whether such dealings, contracts, and conveyances have been in form dealings with, or contracts for, or conveyances of lands purchased from the Plymouth Company of New Zealand, or the New Zealand Company, or the Crown, or have been in form dealings with, or contracts for, or conveyances of lands, part of the Public Reserves of the Town of New Plymouth, or with, for, and of lands for which land so purchased has been agreed or arranged to be exchanged.

And whereas the above-named Commissioners, having inquired into and investigated the matters and things aforesaid, are informed and believe that the under-named original owners, whose lands are proposed to be taken and granted in exchange, without his or their consent, are absent from the Colony of New Zealand, or the heirs-at-law or devisees of such owner or owners, such owner or owners are hereby called to appear personally, or by his or their agent or agents, before the said Commissioners, on the thirty-first day of December, in this present year, at New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, in the Colony aforesaid.

| Barron (or Bawn), John | 1924 1 16 | 1 1658 0 1 |
| Birch, Richard William | 530 0 1 | 1 1321 0 1 |
| Birch, Richard William | 477 0 1 | 1 1289 0 1 |
| Birch, Richard William | 47 3 0 | 1 1290 0 1 |
| Butler, Sir Anthony | 117 1 0 | 1 1534 0 1 |
| Bulteel, John Crocker | 1240 0 1 | 1 1599 0 1 |
| Bulteel, John Crocker | 1874 0 1 | 1 1207 0 1 |
| Croft, George Thomas | 116 0 1 | 1 1627 0 1 |
| Depledge, George | 221 0 1 | 1 262 0 1 |
| Depledge, George | 1222 0 1 | 1 1 283 0 1 |
| Gover, Maria | 236 0 1 | 1 103 0 0 |
| Glover, William Glegg | 104 1 13 | 1 1505 0 1 |
| Gover, William Glegg | 112 0 1 | 1 13 1504 0 1 |
| Grey, Benjamin Charles Thomas | 114 1 5 | 1 1619 0 1 |
| Grey, Benjamin Charles Thomas | 1162 0 1 | 1 12 1620 0 1 |
| Gutch, George | 417 0 1 | 1 1578 0 1 |
| Gutch, George | 47 0 1 | 1 1554 0 1 |
| Harrison, John | 107 0 1 | 1 1150 0 1 |
| Harrison, John | 402 0 1 | 1 1151 0 1 |
| Harrison, John | 302 0 1 | 1 151 0 1 |
| Harrison, John | 1700 0 1 | 1 1535 0 1 |
| Hartley, Joseph | 483 0 1 | 1 367 0 1 |
| Hine, Rev. Vesey Germaine | 1155 0 1 | 1 1584 0 1 |
| Hine, Rev. Vesey Germaine | 117 0 1 | 1 1586 0 1 |
| Hine, Rev. Vesey Germaine | 114 0 1 | 1 1583 0 1 |
| Key, Henry Garrett | 1202 0 1 | 1 351 0 1 |
| Key, Henry Garrett | 1210 3 0 | 1 1350 0 1 |
| Key, Henry Garrett | 1190 0 1 | 1 1611 0 1 |
| Kidman, Mary Ann Elliot | 1720 0 1 | 1 1678 0 1 |
| Lowndes, Thomas John | 465 0 1 | 1 265 0 1 |
| Lowndes, Thomas John | 513 0 1 | 1 239 0 1 |
| Liardet, Francis | 529 0 1 | 1 1320 0 1 |
| Morgans, Joseph | 1722 0 1 | 1 850 0 1 |
| Nelson, Elizabeth | 1922 0 1 | 1 1699 0 1 |
| Richards, John | 2249 0 1 | 1 323 0 1 |
| Richards, John | 2250 0 1 | 1 322 0 1 |
| Richards, John | 2270 0 1 | 1 324 0 1 |
| Rosch, Rev. Frederick | 1847 0 1 | 1 1681 0 1 |
| Rosch, Rev. Frederick | 2150 0 1 | 1 1317 0 1 |
| Stephens, Samuel | 1219 0 1 | 1 1957 0 1 |
| Stephens, Samuel | 1255 0 1 | 1 4195 0 1 |
| Thorp, Joseph | 434 0 1 | 1 792 0 1 |
| Thwaite, Samuel (or Fletcher, Ellen) | 392 0 1 | 1 1310 0 1 |
| Vipan, David Jennings | 1247 1 1 | 3 1316 0 3 |
| Waterhouse, Thomas Poole | 416 0 1 | 1 1300 0 1 |
| Waterhouse, Thomas Poole | 390 0 1 | 1 1297 0 1 |
| Waterhouse, Thomas Poole | 1596 0 1 | 1 292 0 1 |
| Watson, John | 449 0 1 | 1 1633 0 1 |
| Watson, John | 473 0 1 | 1 1607 0 1 |
| Watson, John | 474 0 1 | 1 1608 0 1 |
| White, Smythe | 2270 0 1 | 1 2030 0 1 |
| Wigglesworth, Hannah | 522 0 1 | 3 797 0 3 |
| Wigglesworth, Elizabeth | 2253 0 1 | 3 798 0 3 |
| Wilson, Mary | 437 0 1 | 1 291 0 1 |

Given under our hands at New Plymouth, this 20th day of May, 1870.

Josiah Flight,
J. Stephenson Smith,
Commissioners.