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APPENDIX B. [Copy.] AUCKLAND LAND AND SURVEY DEED No. 4964. Whereas in the years 1870-1871/2 and 1873 the Block of Land known as Tauhara Middle, in the District of Taupo Colony of New Zealand was dealt with by owners thereof by Deeds of Conveyance of three several portions of said Block and by Deed of Lease of the remaining portion thereof to Her Majesty the Queen, and whereas various obstacles legal and technical and relating to Reserves have hitherto intervened preventing a final settlement thereof and whereas these obstacles are' now removed we hereby now confirm the said Deeds of Conveyance and Lease to Her Majesty of the said portions of Tauhara Middle Block, the boundaries of which are described in the schedule written underneath, and we hereby acknowledge receipt of all the consideration monies embodied in the said Deeds of Conveyance to Her Majesty, and also all the monies for rental of the portion leased from the date and according to the terms of the original agreement of Lease namely from the fifteenth of July eighteen hundred and seventy three up to the fifteenth of -July eighteen hundred and seventy eight, dated at Tapuaeharuru this nineteenth, day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy rune'. Tauhara Middle Purchase Block. Commencing at south east corner of Nukuhau Block along margin of Lake Taupo to Kaitaha thence to Maunganamu thence to Ngataraturua thence by survey lines 8421 links 865 links 4669 links and links to the northern boundary of Tauhara Middle Block, thence North west along said boundary to Waikato River thence up said River to Otumuheke Stream to south east corner of Otumuheke Block thence along east boundary of said block to Waikato again thence up Waikato River to boundary of Nukuhau Block thence along north eastern and eastern boundaries of said Block to Lake Taupo starting point area 10,946 acres more or less—excepting the Reserves at Waipahihi Patuiwi and Wharewaka as surveyed. (This deed is No. 4964 in Lands and Survey Office.)

APPENDIX C. THE GOVERNMENT NATIVE LAND PURCHASES ACT AMENDMENT ACT, 1878. 2nd November, 1878. Section 4,—When the claim of the Governor to any piece or parcel of land shall be heard under the provisions of the one hundred and seventh section of the Native Land Act, 1873, or the sixth section of the Native Land Act Amendment Act, 1877, it shall be lawful for the Court to award all or any portion of such land to the Governor, and, if any agreement shall have been entered into for reserving for the use and occupation of any person of the Native race any lands comprised within anv such block, it shall be lawful for the Governor to execute a Crown grant or other instrument vesting such reserve or reserves in the persons interested therein : Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor to insert m such Crown grant or other instrument such resrtictions as he shall deem fit as to the alienability of such reserve, either by sale, lease, or otherwise.

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