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and being the Mokau-Mohakatino Number One h (1h) Block, in the Mokau Survey District aforesaid, the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court, registered Provisional Register, Volume 11, folio 1004 ; and also in all that piece of land situated in the Provincial District of Taranaki, containing four thousand two hundred and sixty acres (4,260 acres), be the same a little more or less, being the Mokau-Mohakatino Number One J (1j) Block, in the said Mokau Survey District, the whole of the land comprised in a partition order of the Native Land Court, registered Provisional Register, Volume 11, folio 1005 : in consideration of the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds (£25,000) paid to the Board by Herrman Lewis, of the City of Wellington, settler (the receipt of which sum the Board doth hereby acknowledge), and of the transfer to the Board of two hundred and fifty (250) fully-paid-up shares of ten pounds (£10) each in the capital of the Mokau Coal and Estates Company (Limited), (as the Board doth hereby admit), doth hereby, at the request and by the direction of the said Herrman Lewis (testified by his executing the direction indorsed hereon), transfer to Walter Harry Bowler, of the City of Auckland, a member of the Civil Service of New Zealand, all the estate and interest of the said Native owners in the said pieces of land. As witness the execution hereof this nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven. The common seal of the Maori Land Board of the] Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land Districts [seal] was hereunto affixed in the presence of — J W. H. Bowler, President. J. W. W. Seymour, Member of the Board. Signed on the day above named by the said Walter •. Harry Bowler in the presence of— W. H. Bowler. C. H. Howard, Solicitor, Wellington.) Memoranda of Encumbrances. 1. Mokau-Mohakatino Number One r (If) — 6428, lease, aboriginal Natives to Joshua Jones, of Waitara, settler. 2. Mokau-Mohakatino Number One G (Ig)— 7430, lease, aboriginal Natives (only those who executed lease 7430) to Joshua Jones. 7431, lease, aboriginal' Natives (only those who executed lease 7431) to Joshua Jones. Three survey liens. 3. Mokau-Mohakatino Number One h (1h) — 7428, lease, aboriginal Natives (only those who executed lease 7428) to Joshua Jones. 7429, lease, aboriginal Natives (only those who executed lease 7429) to Joshua Jones. 4. Mokau-Mohakatino Number One J (Ij)— 7432, lease, aboriginal Natives (only those who executed lease 7432) to Joshua Jones. 7433, lease, aboriginal Natives (only those who executed lease 7433) to Joshua Jones. I, Herrman Lewis, of the City of Wellington, settler, do hereby direct the execution of and consent to and confirm the foregoing transfer. Dated this nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven. Herrman Lewis. Witness —R. M. Watson, Solicitor, Wellington. Herrman Lewis, in the foregoing transfer named and described, hereby admits that he has sold the whole of the land comprised in the said transfer, with the exception of those portions thereof containing altogether seven thousand and forty-six (sic) acres (7,406 acres), more or less, comprised and described in subleases numbers 7490, 7492, 7493, 7494, 7495, and 7496 to the Mokau Coal and Estates Company (Limited), (hereinafter called " the company "), in consideration of a cash payment by the company to him of twenty-five thousand pounds (£25,000) and the allotment to him of five hundred and thirty (530) fully-paid-up shares of ten pounds (£10) each in the capital of the company, and of the company's executing this direction ; and the said Herrman Lewis hereby acknowledges receipt of the said cash payment and the allotment of the said shares, and the company hereby directs the execution of and consents to and confirms the said transfer. Dated this nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven. Signed by the said Herrmann Lewis in thej Herrman Lewis presence of — ) C. H. Howard, Solicitor, Wellington. The common seal of the Mokau Coal and , ) Estates Company (Limited) was here-V [seal] unto affixed in the presence of— Robert McNab. Charles Bailey. J. M. Johnston, Secretary. R. Whitaker, Law Clerk, Palmerston North.

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