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1902. NEW ZEALAND.

"THE NATIVE LAND CLAIMS ADJUSTMENT AND LAWS AMENDMENT ACT, 1901" (ORDER MADE BY THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS UNDER SECTION 7 OF), IN RESPECT OF THE LANDS KNOWN AS MAUNGATAPU AND TE AU-O-WAIKATO.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly in pursuance of Subsection (10) of Section 14 of " The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

olideb made by the royal commissionebs in bespbot op lands known as maungatapu and Te Au-o-Waikato. In the matter of " The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901," and of sections 7 and 51 thereof; and in the matter of the blocks of land situate in the Piako Survey District, known as Maungatapu and Te Au-o-Waikato Blocks ; and in the matter of a Royal Commission bearing date the 31st day of January, 1902, whereby His Excellency the Governor, by Order in Council, appointed Hugh Garden Seth-Smith, Hone Heke, and Alfred Levavasour Durell Eraser to be a Commission among other things to rehear and determine who are the Natives (if any) in addition to those named in the original titles beneficially entitled to the said blocks. Upon inquiry made at Cambridge, and upon hearing the several parties interested, and upon evidence taken, in pursuance and exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon us by the said Act and the said commission, it is ordered and declared as follows:— 1. As to that portion of the Te Au-o-Waikato Block which has been named by the Native Appellate Court Te Au-o-Waikato A, bounded on the south and west by the Topehaehae Stream, on the north by the Piako Eiver, and on the east by a road running in a westerly direction and again in a south-easterly direction, and by a line from the road to the Topehaehae Stream, as defined in the order of the Native Appellate Court in that behalf dated the 3rd day of May, 1901, the said last-mentioned order declaring the persons therein mentioned, and numbered consecutively 1 to 69 inclusive, to be beneficially entitled to the said Te Au-o-Waikato A Block be and the same is hereby confirmed. 2. As to the residue of the said Te Au-o-Waikato Block, and as to the Maungatapu Block (except those portions thereof, containing respectively 2,415 acres and 1,418 acres,- sold and conveyed by the Native owners to Thomas Bannatyne Gillies), the persons beneficially entitled thereto are the persons whose names are set out in the schedule hereto annexed, and the successors of such of them as are dead. 3. All orders of the Native Land Court and Native Appellate Court inconsistent with this order are hereby cancelled. Given under our hands and seals, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and two. [Seal.] H. G. Seth-Smith. [Seal.] Hone Heke. [Seal.] Alpbed L. D. Pbaseb.

This is the schedule referred to in the order of the Boyal Commission dated the 18th July, 1902. H. G. Seth-Smith, Chairman. Schedule. This is the list of names of the persons found .entitled to Te Au-o-Waikato B and Maungatapu Blocks: — 1, Te Hotene Ngakari (m.); 2, Kino Hotene (f.); 3, Wana Hotene (f.); 4, Tua Hotene (m.); 5, Pikiahu Hotene (m.); 6, Eangitakahia Hotene (f.) ; 7, Pahiwaka Hotene (f.); 8, Pahiwaka te Waro (f.); 9, Te Uira Manihera (m.); 10, Tuteao Manihera (m.); 11, Te Aokawehe Manihera (m.); 12, Taipua Manihera (m.); 13, te Huia te Ao Kawehea (m.) ; 14, Eparaima te Wharehuru (m.); 15, Porokoru Tokaanu (m.); 16, Koka Porokoru (m.); 17, Parai Porokoru (m.) ; 18, Rangihuia