✨ Banking and Land Claims
NOTICE
Pursuant to "Wellington Savings’ Bank Act, Session III. No. 7."
RUIHANA TE MARE, an Aboriginal Native of New Zealand, living at Te Aro Pa, Wellington, Widow of Wiremu Epiha, late of Wellington, deceased:
Whereas the said Wiremu Epiha departed this life on or about the 19th day of July, 1861, leaving in the Savings’ Bank, at Wellington, certain sums of money being upwards of Twenty (£20) pounds standing in the name of the said Wiremu Epiha; and whereas the said Ruihana Te Mare claims the balance now in the said Bank as the late wife and legal representative of the said Wiremu Epiha:
Now, these Presents witness that the said Ruihana Te Mare prays that the Trustees of the said Bank will duly transfer the said balance with the interest thereon into the name of the said Ruihana Te Mare, as such legal representative of the said Wiremu Epiha, in pursuance of the Act in such case made and provided. Dated this fifth day of September, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Signed by the said Ruihana Te Mare, in the presence of us at Wellington,
by mark,
RUIHANA TE MARE, x mark.
Ebenezer Baker, Wellington, Interpreter.
Henry Parai x, Wellington, Native Assessor.
Witness to the mark of the said Henri Parai,
Tiaki te Wera,
Wellington Corporal of Police.
New Zealand Company’s Land Claims Commission,
Wellington, 21st August, 1861.
DAVID LEWIS, a Commissioner duly appointed, by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session II, 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 under-mentioned persons having been duly referred to me for investigation, do hereby decide that the said persons are respectively entitled to Crown Grants of the land set against their names in the annexed Schedule.
DAVID LEWIS, Commissioner.
SCHEDULE
| No. of Report. | No. of Claim. | Name of Claimant. | Commissioner’s Decision. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1230 | 1539 | William Seed | Entitled to a Grant of Section, No. 38, on the plan of the City of Wellington. |
| 1231 | 1546 | Joseph Alison | Entitled to Grants of Sections, Nos. 355, 356, 457, and 458 on the plan of the Town of Wanganui also to rural sections, Nos. 181, 182, 183, and 184 on the plan of the left bank of the Wanganui River. |
| 1232 | 1398 | Thomas Waters | Entitled to a Grant of one-third part or thereabouts of section, No. 550, on the plan of the City of Wellington. |
| 1233 | 1416 | Phillip Roberts | Entitled to a Grant of part of rural section, No. 53, on the plan of the Porirua district. |
| 1234 | 1298 | Salvatore Cimino | Entitled to a Grant of a further portion of section, No. 531, on the plan of the City of Wellington. |
| 1235 | 1446 | William Valler | Entitled to a Grant of part of rural section, No. 54, on the plan of the Porirua district. |
| 1236 | 1414 | Mary Ann Ashdown | Entitled to a Grant of part of rural section, No. 12, on the plan of the Porirua district. |
| 1237 | 1355 | Patrick Brogan | Entitled to a Grant of part of section, No. 531, on the plan of the City of Wellington. |
| 1238 | 1263 | John Gibson Brown and David Brown | Entitled to Grants of section, No. 551, part of section, No. 550, and part of section, No. 553, on the plan of the City of Wellington. |
Printed under the Authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington by Thomas McKenzie and James Muir, Printers for the time being to such Government.
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1861, No 32
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💰 Savings Bank Claim by Ruihana Te Mare
💰 Finance & Revenue5 September 1861
Savings Bank, Claim, Legal Representative, Widow, Wellington
- Ruihana Te Mare, Claiming balance in Savings Bank
- Wiremu Epiha, Deceased husband of Ruihana Te Mare
- Henry Parai, Witness to the mark of Ruihana Te Mare
- Ebenezer Baker, Interpreter
- Tiaki te Wera, Wellington Corporal of Police
🗺️ Land Claims Decisions by David Lewis
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey21 August 1861
Land Claims, Crown Grants, Wellington, Wanganui, Porirua
10 names identified
- William Seed, Entitled to a Grant of Section, No. 38, Wellington
- Joseph Alison, Entitled to Grants of Sections, Wanganui
- Thomas Waters, Entitled to a Grant of one-third part of section, No. 550, Wellington
- Phillip Roberts, Entitled to a Grant of part of rural section, No. 53, Porirua
- Salvatore Cimino, Entitled to a Grant of a further portion of section, No. 531, Wellington
- William Valler, Entitled to a Grant of part of rural section, No. 54, Porirua
- Mary Ann Ashdown, Entitled to a Grant of part of rural section, No. 12, Porirua
- Patrick Brogan, Entitled to a Grant of part of section, No. 531, Wellington
- John Gibson Brown, Entitled to Grants of sections, Wellington
- David Brown, Entitled to Grants of sections, Wellington
- David Lewis, Commissioner