LAND KNOWN AS KEKERIONE (ORDER MADE BY THE NATIVE LAND COURT, WELLINGTON, IN RESPECT OF).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1896 Session I, G-08

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1896. NEW ZEALAND.

LAND KNOWN AS KEKERIONE (ORDER MADE BY THE NATIVE LAND COURT, WELLINGTON, IN RESPECT OF).

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly in pursuance of Section 14 of " The Native Land Court Act, 1894."

" the native land court act, 1894," section 14, subsection (10). In the Native Land Court, New Zealand, Wellington District. In the matter of the land known as the Kekerione Block, situate at Wharekauri, the Chathams, and in the matter of the Orders in Council, dated respectively the 14th day of December, 1895, declaring that it shall be within the jurisdiction of the Native Land Court to determine certain matters referred to it thereunder, and on an application to have the aforesaid matters dealt with in manner provided. At a sitting of the Court held at Wellington on the 9th and 19th day of June, 1896, before Alexander Mackay, Esq., Judge, and Wiremu Kauika, Assessor, — It having been ascertained and decided that, on the investigation of the title to the Kekerione Block by the Native Land Court, at a sitting held at the Chatham Islands on the 16th day of June, 1870, and following days, it was intended that the persons in whose favour the certificate of title was ordered by the aforesaid Court on the 24th day of June, 1870, should hold the land comprised therein in trust for the benefit of themselves and other members of the Ngtimutunga Tribe :. And whereas the aforesaid block has since been partitioned by the Court, and certificate of title, Vol. lxxvi., folio 59, under the Land Transfer Act has been issued in favour of Louis Walter Hood, Thomas Eitchie, and Jane Brown, trustees under the will of Wiremu Naera Pomare, deceased' including the parcels of laud set forth in the schedule to this Order, which at the hearing of the ; application for partition, at a sitting of the Native Land Court held at the Chatham Islands on the 2nd day of February, 1885, and following days, the said Wi Naera Pomare admitted in evidence that he held in trust and supported the claims made by Ngatau and others to portions of the said block : It is hereby declared that the Natives whose names appear in the first column, of the Schedule attached hereto, and marked A, are the owners of the parcels of land set out in the second column of the said schedule; and it is hereby ordered that the names of the aforesaid persons shall be= included as sole owners in the titles already issued in favour of Wi Naera Pomare, or his successors, for the parcels aforesaid, and that the existing instruments of title shall be amended to that effect. Witness the hand of Alexander Mackay, Esq., Judge, and the seal of the Court. [Seal.] A. Mackay, Judge.

Schedule A.

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ame of Person entitled. Name of Land. District. Area. STgatau and Kereti Sfgatau ... SIgatau ... SIgatau ... SIgatau ... Peoti Kerei feoti Kerei feoti Kerei Kekerione 1m Kekerione In Kekerione, Section 18 1a C Kekerione 1l Kekerione Ik Kekerione lo, Section 14, Putahumama ... Kekerione Ip, Waewaeraipa 13a Section 1, 2 Otawhao, Section 2... Chatham Islands... A. r. p.. 645 0 0 605 2 0 1,323 0 0 3,276 0 0 359 0 0 423 3 0 603 0 0 27 2 0a ... a ... A. Mackay, Judge.