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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, Judge, and Wi Neera te Kanae, Esquire, Assessor, upon hearing Mr. Oliver Samuel, of counsel for the abovenamed Charles Edwin Gledhill, 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 as No. 4591, 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. 4591. Dated this 14th day of April, 1902. By the Court. J. M. Batham, Judge. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given ; printing (1,200 copies), £3 Us.

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