Whereas, at a sitting of the Native Land Court held in the Preamble. year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the matter of the investigation of the title to the block of land known as "Tahoraiti," in the Provincial District of Hawke's Bay, it was ordered that the said block should be divided into two parts, to be be named respectively "Tahoraiti Number One" and "Tahoraiti Number Two," and that a certificate of title should issue in respect of each of the said parts in favour of the persons whose names are respectively set forth in that behalf in the First and Second Schedules hereto: And whereas, in accordance with the said orders, two certificates of title were issued, and subsequently, on the nineteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, two several Crown grants were signed whereby the said parts of the said block were respectively granted to the persons named in the said orders in that behalf: And whereas it was afterwards discovered that an error had been committed in drawing up the said orders, and that the names of the persons intended by the Court to be included in the title to the part of the block named "Tahoraiti Number One" had been placed in the order made in respect of the part named "Tahoraiti Number Two," and conversely the names of the persons intended to be included in the title to the part named "Tahoraiti Number Two" had been inserted in the order made in respect of the part named "Tahoraiti Number One," and that the said error had been perpetuated in the said certificates and Crown grants: And whereas, by a deed dated the fifteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and signed by all the persons whose names are set forth in the said First and Second Schedules hereto, except Matariri Pouaru and Hanita te Maero, it was intended to effect an exchange of the said two parts of the said block, page 2and by reason of the non-signature of the said deed by the said Matariri Ponaru and Hanita te Maero the said intended exchange has not been effected, and the said Matariri Pouaru and Hanita te Maero are now dead, and doubts have arisen as to the validity of the said deed and of the exchange intended to be thereby effected: And whereas several deeds of lease have been executed by the owners of the said land and the successors of such of them as have died: And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made to rectify the said error and to remove such doubt, and also to protect the interests intended to be acquired under the said deeds of lease: