✨ Native Land Court Referrals
Further Reference of Rangitikei-Manawatu Land to Native Land Court.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
WHEREAS by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Native Lands Act, 1867," the Governor may at his discretion refer to the Native Lands Court the claim of any person to, or any question affecting the title to or interest of any such person in, land within the boundaries described in the second Schedule to the said Act being the boundaries described in a certain Deed of Sale to the Crown, bearing date the thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and expressed to be a conveyance by Natives entitled to land within the district excepted from the operation of "The Native Lands Act, 1865," by section eighty-two thereof: Provided that no claim by, and no question relating to the title or interest of, any Native who shall have signed the said Deed of Sale shall be so referred:
Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf, do hereby refer to the Native Lands Court the claims which are named in the Schedule hereunto attached, being claims for lands within the boundaries aforesaid of Natives who have not signed the said Deed of Sale.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, and issued this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
E. W. STAFFORD.
N.Z. Gazette, 13th May, 1869.
SCHEDULE.
| NAME OF CLAIMANT. | NAME OF BLOCK OF LAND CLAIMED. | DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES. |
|---|---|---|
| Akapita Te Tewe and others | Hikungarara | Commencing at Te Pera, thence to Kopuapokororo, thence to the eastward to Papawaiharangi, thence by Hughes’s line to Mangaone, thence crossing that stream and going on to Tutumiro, thence to Pukeiwahie, Rangataua, Rangitikei, thence by that river to the commencing point at Te Pera. |
| Keremihana Wairaka | Tawhirihoe | Commencing at Unuunu, thence by Mr. Swainson’s line to Rehurehu, thence by that line to the sea, thence from the mouth of the Rangitikei River to Tawhiriohe, thence to Pukekuku, thence to the commencing point at Te Unuunu. |
| Paranihi Te Tau | Reureu Pukekokeke | Commencing at Waitapu, thence by that stream to Whitianga, thence southwards to Whakamoetakapu Te Puta, thence to the westward along the line of Paroa a Pakeha to Mangaone, to Pahekeheke Pukeiwahie, thence to the bridge at Whakaauranga, thence along the Rangataua Stream to the Rangitikei River, thence eastward to Kakariki Maungamutu, thence to Te Karaka To Ruai, thence to Tapatu Waituna, thence to Te Reureu Fikitara, to the commencing point at Waitapu. |
| Pumipi Te Kaka | Makowhai | Commencing at the mouth of Makowhai, thence by that river to the Taurarua Stream, thence by that stream to Rawiri Te Wanui’s boundary, thence to Totara Taepa, thence to the northward along the line of Ngatikauwhata to Te Punapokororo, thence to Rangitikei, to Pera, thence by the Rangitikei River to the mouth of the Makowhai Stream, at the commencing point. |
| Wiriharai Te Angiangi and others | Kaikokopu | Commencing at Parakaia’s and Hare Hemi’s post on the inland side of Paepae, thence seawards on the coast to Hare Hemi’s boundary, thence by the coast to Pukepuke, the boundary which has been surveyed for Rawiri Te Wanui (Kalanui), thence by that line to Kakahuwera, thence to Omanukaka, thence southwards to Parakaia’s post inland of Te Paepae. |
| Henare Te Waita and others | Oroua | Commencing at Te Puta’s, thence to the eastward to Whakamoetakapu Paeroa Te Papaku, thence to the eastward, Umutoi Oroua, thence to the southward down the Oroua to Pariroa Te Ruapuha, thence westward to Makino, and on to the commencement at Te Puta. |
| Hare Hemi Taharape | Omarupapako | Bounded on the South by Crown Land, towards the interior by Parakaia’s Claim, on the East by land claimed by Wiriharai. |
| Rawiri Wanui Te Kooro Te One Te Ara Takana | Kakanui Mangatangi Awahuri |
Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington by THOMAS M’KENZIE, Printer for the time being to such Government.
Wellington Provincial Gazette 1869, No 22
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🪶 Referral of Rangitikei-Manawatu Land Claims to Native Land Court
🪶 Māori Affairs4 May 1869
Land claims, Native Land Court, Rangitikei-Manawatu, Māori land rights
8 names identified
- Akapita Te Tewe, Claimant for Hikungarara
- Keremihana Wairaka, Claimant for Tawhirihoe
- Paranihi Te Tau, Claimant for Reureu Pukekokeke
- Pumipi Te Kaka, Claimant for Makowhai
- Wiriharai Te Angiangi, Claimant for Kaikokopu
- Henare Te Waita, Claimant for Oroua
- Hare Hemi Taharape, Claimant for Omarupapako
- Rawiri Wanui, Claimant for Kakanui Mangatangi Awahuri
- Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford