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delineated on Plan No. 356, deposited in the District Survey Office, Gisborne, and which said parcel of land is shown on the plan indorsed hereon, and thereon edged with red lines, to hold the said parcel of land to the said applicant, his heirs and assigns absolutely 6. It is further ordered and decreed that all other titles to the said parcel of land known as Panikau No. 4b, above particularly described, shall henceforth be void and of non-effect in so far as they affect the said Panikau No. 4b Block, whether the said titles be now vested in the said applicant or in any other person whomsoever and that the registration of all the said other titles shall be cancelled and of non-effect in so far as regards the said Panikau No. 4b Block. Witness the hand of his Honour George Elliott Barton, Esquire, Judge, and the seal of the said Validation Court. G. E. Barton, Judge.

PANIKAU No. 5 BLOCK. In the Validation Court at Gisborne. In the application of Edward Murphy, of Te Arai, sheep-farmer, claiming validation of thirtyfour contracts for the sale of the freehold in certain undivided shares and interests of Natives in Panikau No. 5 Block. Tuesday, the 4th Day of September, 1894. Upon reading the application filed herein, and upon due proof of service thereof upon the objectors named in the said application, and upon reading the documents exhibited, and hearing the evidence adduced before the Court, and upon hearing Mr De Lautour of counsel for the applicant, and there being no objectors present, or represented, the Court doth hereby order, declare, and decree as follows :— 1. It is declared that the several contracts made by the following Native owners in the said Panikau No. 5 Block—that is to say Kingi Hori Toa, Eapata Taita, Hori Peita, Hamiora Maunga, Paora Hura, Tamati Ota, Enoka Whakatete, Heta Mangungu, Pera Kahore, Tahauru, Heni Whareponga, Hoana Maunga, Heni te Eohahiwu, Eru Pao, Kereama Piwaka, Arapeta te Hau, Te Hapi Kutia, Himiona te Kani, Euruhira Manutuke, Irihapeti Tuahoanga, Heneri Temepara, Keita Ngahue, Hone Meihana Tamararo, Tanatiu te Kani, Karnariera Kahure, Timoti Wahahuka, Apiata te Hame, Hone Niwa, Marata Whana, Te Hapi Hinaki, Tiopira Kaitara, Wiremu te Hau, Heni te Wene, Emere Ngahue—for the sale of their respective freehold interests in the said Panikau No. 5 Block, are contracts invalid and incapable of being enforced without the assistance of this honourable Court, by reason of their having been respectively made not in accordance with the requirements of the statutes then in force (but now repealed) regulating the sales of the said interests in the said block. 2. It is further declared that the said several contracts are contracts which, irrespective of form, had they been made between Europeans, concerning lands held under Crown grant, would have been valid and binding contracts capable of being enforced in the Supreme Court. 3. It is further declared that the said contracts were not in any respect contrary to equity and good conscience. 4. It is further declared that the said several contracts were fully and perfectly understood at the time they were entered into by the contracting parties, and were fair contracts for reasonably sufficient and lawful considerations at the time and under the circumstances under which they were made. 5. It is hereby ordered and declared that the said applicant, Edward Murphy, is entitled to an estate in fee-simple in possession, free from encumbrances, in a block of 540 acres, more or less, part of the said Panikau No. 5 Block, situated in Block 11., Whangara Survey District, and Block XIV., Uawa Survey District, to be hereafter known as Panikau No. 5b Block, being all that parcel awarded by the Native Land Court of New Zealand, on or about the 3rd day of February 1887, on a division then made between sellers and non-sellers to the several Native persons, the said sellers, whose sales to the applicant are hereby validated. And being all that parcel known as Panikau No. 5b Block, containing 548 acres, as the same is more particularly delineated on Plan No. 356, deposited in the District Survey Office, Gisborne, and which said parcel of land is shown on the plan indorsed hereon, and thereon edged with red lines. To hold the said parcel of land to the said applicant, his heirs, and assigns absolutely 6. It is further ordered and decreed that all other titles to the said parcel of land known as Panikau No. Sb, above particularly described, shall henceforth be void and of non-effect, in so far as they affect the said Panikau No. sb. Block, whether the same titles be now vested in the said applicant or in any other person wdiomsoever And that the registration of all the said other titles shall be cancelled and of non-effect in so far as regards the said Panikau No. 5b Block. Witness the hand of his Honour George Elliott Barton, Esquire, Judge, and the seal of the said Validation Court. G. E. Barton, Judge.

IHUNUI BLOCK. In the Validation Court, holden at Gisborne. In the application of Andrew Eeeves for the validation of six. contracts for sale of undivided freehold interests in the Ihunui Block, situated in the Gisborne Native Land Court District, and within the jurisdiction of the Validation Court sitting at Gisborne, and in the application of William Frederic Hale for validation of a contract for sale of one equal undivided half-share —a freehold interest of Wi Kingi Hori in said block , and in the application of Timi Moriti and Wi Paraone, claiming as executors of the will of Hirini Haereone, a non-seller, deceased owner in the said block, for a partition between them and the other owners of said block.

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