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1944 NEW ZEALAND

THE NATIVE PURPOSES ACT, 1938 REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION ON PETITION No. 14 OF 1937, OF HENARE RAKO AND OTHERS, PRAYING FOR A REOPENING OF THE TITLE TO HIWARAU BLOCK

Presented to Parliament in pursuance of the provisions of section 23 of the Native Purposes Act, 1938 Native Land Court (Chief Judge's Office), Wellington C. 1, 23rd November, 1944. Memorandum for the Hon. the Native Minister. Petition No. 14/1937 : Hiwarau Block I transmit to you the Court's report upon Petition No. 14/1937 concerning the Hiwarau block. In view of the conclusions reached by the Court —conclusions in which I concur—l recommend that no further action be taken. G. P. Shepherd, Chief Judge. In the Native Land Court of New Zealand, Waiariki District. —In the matter of section 23 of the Native Purposes Act, 1938, and in the matter of Petition No. 14 of 1937, of Henare Rako and others, praying for a reopening of the title of Hiwarau Block. At a sitting of the Court held at Opotiki on the 19th July, 1939, before John Harvey, Esquire, Judge. Upon reference by His Honour th?. Chief Judge of the said petition for inquiry the following report is submitted : — 1. This land is part of an area confiscated to the Crown following upon acts of the Maori people in the Opotiki District which were considered sufficiently grave to warrant this drastic action against their lands. 2. The following notice, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 14th November, 1874, confirms the return of part of the confiscated area and evidences the award of the Compensation Court charged with hearing and determining the claims of Natives to the return of parts of such confiscated area : — Bay of Plenty District : Schedule No. 14, 1872 Lot to be granted under the Fourth and Sixth Clauses of the Confiscated Lands Act, 1867. The Lot herein specified is to be inalienably assured by a Grant in Trust to the Members of the Upokorehe Tribe whose Names are included in the Schedule attached. The right to take lines of road is reserved.

N.B.—Lots 1 and 2, Hiwarau Sections, Pitoairn's Survey, 25 acres each, are not included in this block.

Name of Tribe for certain of whose Names of Trustees. Sex. Rank. Address. Area. No. and Description of Lot. Locality. Members Grant is made. Acres. ( Upokorehe .. Teira Haruru .. M. Native Ohiwa 1,073 Hiwarau Block : bounded on Ohiwa. Chief the north by high-water Hemi Kakitu .. M. ,, „ mark in Ohiwa Harbour Hoeroa .. M. „ „ from the mouth of Nukuhou Hemi Hamu .. M. „ „ River to Punawai; on the Mita Tahanoke.. M. „ „ east by a road surveyed from Iraia Kaiponi .. M. „ „ Punawai to the point where Hoani Akeake .. M. „ „ it first strikes Nukuhou River; on the south and west by Nukuhou River