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posed to have been conferred on such Court by a certain Order in Council, dated the 4th day of March, 1887, and, it having been made to appear to this Court that such transaction was fair and reasonable and by consent, the Court does hereby ratify and confirm such transaction and the title thereunder of the said Charles Sampson to the estate in fee-simple in the said Section Number one hundred and fifty-four (154), Hua, known as Ruatangata, and does hereby direct the District Land Registrar to issue, in the name of the said Charles Sampson, a certificate of title for the said Section Number one hundred and fifty-four (154), Hua, known as Ruatangata. Dated at New Plymouth, this 3rd day of April, 1902. By the Court. J. M. Batham, Judge. In the Validation Coubt. In the matter of " The Reserves and Other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1901 " ; and in the matter of an application by one Charles Richardson- Bayley, of Hawera, settler, for the validation of a succession order, dated the Ist day of April, 1890, in favour of the said Charles Richardson Bayley to the interest of one Ngahauporoaki in Section 156 2 , Hua. At a sitting of the Validation Court, duly constituted, and held at the Courthouse, New Plymouth, on the 9th day of April, 1902, before James Meacham Batham, Esquire, Judge, and Wi Neera te Kanae, Esquire, Assessor, and. upon hearing Mr. Weston, of counsel for the applicant, and Mr. Frederick John Wilson, of counsel for the Public Trustee, and it having been made to appear to the satisfaction of the Court that the abovementioued succession order was made in reliance upon an order of the Native Land Court made under the circumstances set out in the preamble to section 48 of the abovementioned Act, and being further satisfied that the said succession order was issued in fulfilment of a contract contained in a will which was in all respects fair and reasonable, it is hereby ordered that the said succession order shall be and is hereby ratified and confirmed; and, with the consent of the applicant and the Public Trustee, it is further ordered that the interests of the whole of the owners of the abovementioned Section 156 2 , Hua, shall be partitioned in manner following: — To the said Charles Richardson Bayley, to be held by him for an estate in fee-simple, all that parcel of land containing 4f acres, being part of the said Section 156 2 , to be known as 156 2n , bounded as follows—Commencing at the north corner of block, thence south-east 921.5 links by Section 4, thence south-westerly at right angles to the last boundary to a point from which a line drawn parallel to the north-east boundary to the public road will cut off 4f acres, thence north-east along the public road to the commencing-point. And to the Public Trustee the. balance of the said Section 156 2 , Hua, to be known as 156 2b . Dated 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 an application by one Thomas Wilson, of the Smart Road, near New Plymouth, farmer, as successor in title, for validation of a memorandum of mortgage from Ani Kanara Ruruhira Piti and Ngare Piti to one John William Foote of Native Reserve B 1, Hua District, dated the 16th day of March, 1894, and registered in the Land Transfer Office at New Plymouth as No. 4524. • At a sitting of the Validation Court, duly constituted, and held at the Supreme Court House at New Plymouth on the 11th day of April, 1902, before James Meacham Batham, Esquire, Judge, and Wi Neera te Kanae, Esquire, Assessor, upon hearing Mr. John Edward Wilson, of counsel for the abovenamed Thomas Wilson, the applicant, and Mr. Frederick John Wilson, of counsel for the Public Trustee, and it having been made to appear to the satisfaction of this Court that the consideration mentioned in the said memorandum of mortgage, registered No. 4524, was paid by the mortgagee therein mentioned in reliance upon an order of the Native Land Court made under the circumstances set out in the preamble to section 48 of the abovementioned Act, and, being further satisfied that the transaction evidenced by such memorandum of mortgage is in all respects fair and reasonable, the Court doth hereby ratify and confirm the said transaction and the said memorandum of mortgage No. 4524. Dated this 11th day of April, 1902. By the Court. J. M. Batham, Judge. In the Validation Coubt. In the matter of "The Reserves and Other Lands Sale, Disposal, and Enabling and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1901 " ; and in the matter of an application by one Charles Edwin Gledhill, of Mangorei, near New Plymouth, farmer, as successor in title, for validation of a memorandum of mortgage from Mere Tahana and Karena te Ha to one James Wells of Subdivisions 43 and 49 of Native Reserve No. 3, Puketotara, Grey District, dated the Ist day of May, 1894, and registered at the Land Transfer Office at New Plymouth as No. 4591.