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of each block shall receive the same proportion of the said sums of £25,000 and £2,500 as the Government valuation of the owners' interest in such block bears to the total of the Government valuation of the owners' interest in the whole of the said four blocks, and so alr.o that each of the Native owners of each block shall receive in cash not less than the Government valuation of his interest in such block ; and, further, that the Maori Land Board of the Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land District be and it is hereby empowered to execute, as the agent of the Native owners, in the name of the Board, an agreemen< for sale of the said lands to the said Herrman Lewis, his executors, administrators, and ar.signs, at the said price, suph agreement to contain all such terms as to the said Board shall seem fit, including a power to the said Board to execute all such instruments of alienation as may be reasonably required for the purpose of carrying out the terms of such agreement. Dated at Te Kuiti, this 22nd day of March, 1911. A. J. Holland, Chairman of Meeting of Assembled Owners, and Board's representative. Ngareta x Rangiawhio. toheriri tawhana. Rangihaere Tawhana. Wetini Paneta.

Minutes of a Meeting of Assembled Owners of Subdivision No. 1h of the Mokau-Mohakatino Block, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, containing 19,576 acres, more or less, duly called and held under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Kuiti, on Wednesday, the 22nd day of March, 1911, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Resolved at such meeting by the assembled owners, pursuant to Part XVIII of the said Act, That the proposal of Herrman Lawis be accepted —namely, that the Native owners should sell to him and he should purchase the above-mentioned piece of land, together with Subdivisions Ig, If, and 1j of the said Mokau-Mohakatino Block, and all the right, title, estate, and interest of the Native owners therein, for the total sum of £25,000 in cash and £2,500 in fully paid shares in the , to be paid to the Native owners of such blocks in proportion to their respective interests therein, and so that the owners of each block shall receive the same proportion of the said sums of £25,000 and £2,500 as the Government valuation of the owner;;' interest in such block bears to the total of the Government valuation of the owners' interest in the whole of the said four blocks, and so also that each of the Native owners of each block shall receive not less than the Government valuation of his interest in such block; and, further, that the Maori Land Board of the Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land District be and it is hereby empowered to execute, as the agent of the Native owners, in the name of the Board, an agreement for sale of the said lands to the said Herrman Lewis, his executors, administrators, and assigns, at the said price, such agreement to contain all such terms as to the said Board shall seem fit, including a power to the said Board to execute all such instruments of alienation as may be reasonably required for the purpose of carrying out the terms of such agreement. Dated at Te Kuiti, this 22nd day of March, 1911. A. J. Holland, Chairman of Meeting of Assembled Owners, and Board's representative. Ngareta x Rangiawhio. Rangihaere Tawhana. Toheriri Tawhana.

0 No. 19. Agreement re Deduction of 10 per cent, from Mokau-Mohakatino Purchase-money. We, the undersigned owners in Mokau-Mohakatino Noe. If, Ig, Ih, and 1j Blocks, do jointly and severally agree to 10 per centum of our several proportions of the purchar.e-money accruing therefrom being retained by the President of the Waikato-Maniopoto District Maori Land Board, such percentage to be devoted towards the liquidation of the legal and agents' costs due in connection with the said bock ; and we do further agree that such sums may be paid out by him as directed by Messrs. Pepene Eketone and Tuiti Macdonald, and without further reference to us. [Translation.] Ko matou c mau ake nei nga ingoa i raro iho nei, nga tangata kei roto i Mokau-Mohakatino Poraka Nama If, Ig, Ih, me 1j c whakaae huihui ana i whakaae taki tahi ana kia purutia c Te Tumuaki o te Paori Whenua Maori o Waikato-Waikato nga moni c rua hereni i roto i te pauna (10%) i roto i nga moni hoko o aua poraka c taka mai ana kia matou, a, ko taua moni (rua hereni i roto i te pauna) hei whakaea i nga raruraru whakahaerenga a te ture me nga raruraru hoki o nga kaiwhakahaorc mo runga mo aua poraka ; a, c, whakaae ana ano hoki matou kia utua aua moni c ia i runga i te whakahau a Pepene Eketone me Tuiti Macdonald, c, kia kaua hoki c titiri mai kia matou.