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2. That the parcel of land shown on the said indorsed plan, and thereon edged with green, and called Ihunui No. 2 Block, 10 acres and 28 perches, should be apportioned to the said Timi Moriti and Wi Paraone as trustees of the said will of Hirini Haereone, and for the use of the cestids que trustent therein provided. 3. That the parcel of land shown on the said indorsed plan, and thereon edged with yellow, and called Ihunui No. 3 Block, 10 acres and 28 perches, should be apportioned to the said William Frederic Hale as his share of the said block, in right of his purchase of the said half-share of the said Wi Kingi Hori. Now, therefore, it is hereby ordered, declared, and decreed as follows:— 1. It is ordered that the said Ihunui No. 3 Block, containing 10 acres and 28 perches, more or less, being all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 11 acres 2 roods, less 3 roods 14 perches, for roads situate in the Uawa Survey District, being subdivision 3 of the Ihunui Block, commencing at the northernmost corner of subdivision 3. Bounded on the north-east by Uawa No. 2, by a line bearing 140° 31', 434-6 links, to the Ihunui Stream, thence bounded on the north east by the Ihunui Stream to the south-east corner of subdivision 2 , thence bounded on the south-west by subdivision 2, by a line bearing 351° 12', 2215-4 links, to the Uawa Eiver, thence bounded on the north-west by the Uawa Eiver to the commencing-point (an approved plan whereof is indorsed hereon, edged yellow), shall be the property of the said William Frederic Hale, for an estate in fee-simple in possession, free from all encumbrances. And it is hereby further ordered that all other titles to the said land above particularly described as the Ihunui No. 3 Block shall be henceforth void and of none effect in so far as they affect the said Ihunui No. 3 Block, whether the same be vested in the said William Frederic Hale, or in any other person whomsoever, and that the registration of all said other titles shall be cancelled and made of none effect in so far as it affects the said Ihunui No. 3 Block, and it is declared that the said William Frederic Hale is entitled to a certificate of title under the said "Land Transfer Act, 1885, and its amendments, for the said Ihunui No. 3 Block, for an estate of inheritance in fee-simple, free from all encumbrances. Witness the hand of his Honour George Elliott Barton, Esquire, Judge, and the seal of the said Validation Court, this 19th day of July, 1894. G. E. Baeton, Judge.

PAREMATA No. 1 BLOCK. In the Validation Court at Gisboene. In the application of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company (Limited) for validation of eighteen contracts, dated the 3rd of May, 1882, for purchase of freehold shares in the Paremata Block, at Tologa Bay, within the Native Land Court District of Gisborne , and also for validation of two contracts, both dated the 23rd of May, 1888, being the one an authority given by certain Natives to the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company (Limited) to mortgage certain shares in Native lands (including said Paremata shares), and the other an agreement also given by certain Natives to the said New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company (Limited) to mortgage certain shares in Native lands (including said Paremata shares) for the advances named therein, and also for validation of a mortgage by the said New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company (Limited), dated the 3rd of July, 1888, to the Bank of New Zealand, made in pursuance of the said authority so given by said Natives. 2. And in the application for cross-relief (made from the bar) by the Honourable James Carroll and Wi Pere, as trustees for the owners of several Native lands (including the owners of the said Paremata shares, the contracts for sale whereof are so claimed to be validated as aforesaid), for validation of an agreement dated the 17th of February, 1892, between the applicants of the first part, William Lee Eees, solicitor of the second part, and the said Honourable James Carroll and Wi Pere of the third part, and for a declaration that the said James Carroll and Wi Pere are trustees for the Native owners of the said Paremata Block upon the terms of the said agreement of the 17th February, 1892. 3. And in the application for cross-relief (also made from the bar) by the Native owners of the said Paremata Block, both sellers and non-sellers, for specific performance (in case the aforesaid contracts, or any of them, should be enforced) of three several contracts or agreements—the first dated the 20th of April, 1888, between a certain committee of Native owners of the said Paremata Block and the said William Lee Eees, the second dated the 4th of May, 1888, made between the said Bank of New Zealand and the said William Lee Eees and Wi Pere and " the owners of Paremata who had agreed to transfer their land" to the New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company (Limited), and the third dated the Ist June, 1888, made between the said William Lee Eees and Wi Pere and the owners of certain lands contributed to the said New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company (Limited), including the said Paremata Block. Feiday, the 19th Day of Octobee, 1894. Upon reading the said application of the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company (Limited) filed herein and upon proof of service of notice thereof upon the objectors named therein and upon reading the agreement dated the 17th February 1892, whereon the application for crossrelief by the Honourable James Carroll and Wi Pere is founded, and upon reading the several agreements of the 20th of April, 1888, of the 4th of May, 1888, and of the Ist of June, 1888, whereon the application for cross-relief (in certain events only), made by the Natives of the whole Paremata Block (both sellers and non-sellers), is founded, and upon hearing the evidence

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