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In the Validation Court. In the matter of " The Eeserves and Other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1901 " ; and in the matter of the application of Jane Lock, of New Plymouth, for the validation of the purchase effected by memorandum of transfer No. 5901 from the Natives therein named to Jane Lock of the lands therein specified, being portion of Native Reserve No. 14 (known as Pukenui), Town of New Plymouth. At a sitting of the Validation Court, duly constituted, and held at the Supreme Court House at New Plymouth on the 9th day of April, 1902, before James Meacham Batham, Esquire, a Judge, and Wi Neera te Kanae, an Assessor, upon hearing Mr. Roy, of counsel for the applicant, Jane Lock, and Mr. F. J. Wilson, of counsel for the Public Trustee, and it having been made to appear to the satisfaction of this Court that the applicant, Jane Lock, in reliance on certain orders of the Native Land' Court made in exercise of the jurisdiction supposed to have been conferred on the said Court by a certain Order in Council dated the 4th day of March, 1887, paid to the Native owners thereof moneys for a valid title to the estate in fee-simple and for all those portions of Native Reserve Number Fourteen (14) (known as Pukenui), Town of New Plymouth, specified in memorandum of transfer registered as No. 5901 in the office of the District Land Registrar at New Plymouth, from such Native owners therein named .to the said Jane Lock,, and this Court, being further satisfied that the transaction in respect of which such payment was made is in all respects fair and reasonable, and, by consent, the Court does hereby ratify and confirm such transaction and purchase and the title of the said Jane Lock thereunder to the estate in fee-simple in the said lands in the said memorandum of transfer No. 5901 mentioned, being portion of Native Reserve Number Fourteen (14) (known as Pukenui), Town of New Plymouth. Dated at New Plymouth, this 9th day of April, 1902. By the Court, J. M. Batham, Judge. In the Validation Covet. In the matter of " The Reserves and Other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1901 " ; and in the matter of the application by Mary Mitchinson, of New Plymouth, widow, for the validation of the purchase effected by memoranda of transfer Nos. 5855 and 5987 from the Natives therein named to James Mitchinson of the lands therein specified, being portions of Native Reserve No. 14 (known as Pukenui), Town of New Plymouth. At a sitting of the Validation Court, duly constituted, and held at the Supreme Court House at New Plymouth on the 9th day of April, 1902, before James Meacham Batham, Esquire, a Judge, and Wi Neera te Kanae, an Assessor, upon hearing Mr. Roy, of counsel for the applicant, Mary Mitchinson, in succession to James Mitchinson, now deceased, and Mr. F. J. Wilson, of counsel for the Public Trustee, and it having been made to appear to the satisfaction of the Court that James Mitchinson, in reliance on certain orders of the Native Lands Court made in exercise of the jurisdiction supposed to have been conferred on the said Court by a certain Order in Council dated the 4th day of March, 1887, paid to the Native owners thereof moneys for a valid title to the estate in fee-simple in all those portions of Native Reserve No. 14 (known as Pukenui), Town of New Plymouth, specified in memoranda of transfer registered as Nos. 5855 and 5987 in the office of the District Land Registrar at New Plymouth, from the Native owners therein named to the said James Mitchinson, and this Court being further satisfied that the transaction in respect of which such payment was made is in all respects, fair and reasonable, and, by consent, the Court does hereby ratify and confirm such transactions and purchases and the title of the said James Mitchinson thereunder to the estate in fee-simple in the said lands in the said memoranda of transfer Nos. 5855 and 5987 mentioned, being portions of the Native Reserve No. 14 (known as Pukenui), Town of New Plymouth. Dated at New Plymouth, this 9th day of April, 1902. By the Court. J. M. Batham, Judge. In the Validation Covet. In the matter of " The Reserves and Other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1901 " ; and in the matter of the application of John Gollop Sampson, of Bell Block, farmer, for the validation of the title in the name of Charles Sampson to Section No. 154, Hua (Ruatangata), containing by admeasurement 5 acres, more or less. At a sitting of the Validation Court, duly constituted, and held at the Supreme Court House at New Plymouth on the 3rd day of April, 1902, before James Meacham Batham, Esquire, a Judge, and Wi Neera te Kanae, an Assessor, upon hearing Mr. Roy, of counsel for the applicant, John Gollop Sampson, and Mr. F. J. Wilson, of counsel for the Public Trustee, and it having been made to appear to the satisfaction of this Court that Charles Sampson, formerly of New Plymouth, now deceased, prior to the 31st day of October, 1895 —namely, in or about 1860—purchased from the Native owners thereof, through one Nathaniel Reed, Section Number one hundred and fifty-four (154), Hua, known as Ruatangata, and which land the said Charles Sampson for many years past held in reliance upon an order of the Native Land Court made in exercise of the jurisdiction sup-