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into an agreement for sale containing such terms as to it shall seem reasonable, and also to execute such transfers or other assurances of the said interest as may be required for the purpose of vesting the same in the purchaser thereof. Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1910. Chapman, Skerrett, Wylie, and Tbipp (Per E. G. Grundy), Solicitors for Applicants. (Received 24th December. 1910.)

No. 15. No. 9/70. —3144. Native Department, Wellington, 20th December, 1910. Memorandum for the President, Waikato-Maniapoto District Maori Land Board, Auckland. Mokau-Mohakatino. I have to inform you that the Hon. the Native Minister has directed that a meeting of assembled owners in respect of Subdivisions If, 10, Ih, 1j be called. According to arrangements made, I have agreed on behalf of the Board to advertise the meetings for Friday, the 6th January, 1911, at 2 p.m., at Te Kuiti; also to gazette a meeting of the Board for the same date and place at 10 a.m. This will enable Mr. Skerrett to appear before he leaves for England. Notices will be published in this -week's Gazette, and extracts will be duly forwarded you together with other papers. Thos. W. Fisher, Under-Secretary.

No. 16. MOKAU-MOHAKATINO NoS. IF, Ig, Ih, AND lj. Meetings of Assembled Owners he!d at the Courthouse, Te Kuiti, on Friday, the 6th January, 1911, at 2 p.m. The President attended as representative of the Board. Present: The following owners of the bocks named : No. If —Taruke te Oha ; Erena Wetere, alias Hurangi, alias Te Kirihaehae Wetere ; Ratima Pekamu ; Hera Kingi (by proxy); Hinewai Tcira ; Te Koro, alias Te Koro Wetere ; Te Ripo te Huia ;Te lanui; Kopa Ngatohu ; Te Kepu te Kiri; Te Kapa te Aira, alias Rangiwaea ; Te Maliuri Tawhana ; Pohe Tawhana ; Rangihuia Kingi; Npareta, alias Rangiawhio; Te Wera Wetere; Te Ruruku; Toheriri; Tangihaere te Tawhana; Teriaki Tikaokao ; Takerei Kingi; Tiramate Wetere ; Tauhia te Wiata; Tarake te Wiata ; Taiaroa Wharetarawa, alias Wharetarawa ; Whakarewai; Wata (te Rira). No. Ig—Rangiawhio ; Niwha ; Aterea te Aliiwaka ; Te lanui; Te Ripo Huia; Te Arawaka te Huia. No. Ih—Aterea te Ahiwaka ;Te Arawaka te Huia ; Taruke te Oha ; Hinewai te Tcira ; Te Kapa te Aira ; Ngareta ; Toheriri Tawhana ; Tangihaere Tawhana ; Te Riaki Tikaokao ; Pohe Tawhana ; Te Mahuri Tawhana ; Wata (Waata te Rira); Whakarewai. No*. Ij—Te Aorangi Kingi; Te Arawaka te Huia ; Kirihaehae Wetere ; Te Koro Wetere ; Rangiawhio ; Tauhia te Wiata ; Tarake te Wiata ; Wharetarawa. Motion for consideration (in re No. If) : That the proposal of Herrman Lewis be accepted— namely, that the Native owners should sell to him and he should purchase the above-mentioned piece of land, and all the right, tit!e, estate, and interest of the Native owners therein, for a sum of money to be ascertained in manner hereinafter provided, upon the terms and conditions expressed in a draft agreement hereunto annexed and marked " A," .between the Maori Land Board of the Waikato-Mania-poto District of the one part, and the said Herrman Lewis of the other part (which draft agreement shall be deemed to be incorporated herein). The price shall be the same proportion of £25,000 as the capital value of this block, shown by the 1911 Government valuation, bears to the total capital value of this block and subdivisions Ig, Ih, and 1j of the Mokau-Mohakatino Block. Should the siid capital value of the interest of such as the vendors who are non-lessors and the capital value of the owner's interest as shown in the valuation roll of the interest of such of the vendors who are lessors in this block be more than the said purchase-money, then the said purchase-rroney shall be increased by such a sum as shall be necessary to make good the deficiency. Ar.d the said Maori Lard Board of the WaikatoManiapoto Maori Land District be and it is hereby empowered to execute, as the agent of the Native owners, in the name of the Board, the said agreement and any instrument or instruments of alienation contemplated or provided for by the said agreement. Motions in re Nos. Ig, Ih, and 1j similar in all respects to the foregoing. The meetings were held seriatim, Mr. W. H. Bowler being elected chairman in each case. Mr. Skerrett, who acted for the Native owners, explained the effect of the resolution proposed.