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Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1892, 1893, 1897, 1898, 1899.

1893, No. 22. — An Act to amend "The Wanganui River Trust Act, 1891."

1893, No. 22.
Title.An Act to amend "The Wanganui River Trust Act, 1891."

[2nd October, 1893.

Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:.—

1.Short Title. The Short Title of this Act is "The Wanganui River Trust Act Amendment Act, 1893."
2.Extended powers of trust for removing obstructions to navigation of river. It shall be lawful for the trust within the district constituted by "The Wanganui River Trust Act, 1891," at any time, and without giving any notice or doing or seeing to the doing of other preliminary act,—
(1.) To remove any earth, stone, boulders, or sand off, from, or out of the channel or any land upon the banks of the river;
(2.) To deposit the same in any other part of the district; and
(3.) For any of the purposes of the trust to make use of any such earth, stone, boulders, or sand, notwithstanding anything contained in the said Act, and notwithstanding any such earth, stone, boulders, or sand shall be removed from or used upon land which is owned by Natives under their customs or usages, whether the ownership of the same has or has not been defined by the Native Land Court.
3.Natives may apply to Native Land Court to assess compensation for earth, stones, &c., taken from or deposited on their land. Public Works Act to apply as to compensation. Any Native or Natives interested, or claiming to be interested, in any land from or upon which any earth, stone, boulders, or sand shall be so removed, deposited, or used as aforesaid, may make application to the Native Land Court to ascertain what amount of compensation ought to be paid to the owners of or other persons interested in such land by reason of such earth, stone, boulders, or sand having been so removed, deposited, or used, page 2and as to who are the persons entitled to be paid such compensation, and in what proportions; and, after hearing such evidence as may be produced before it or may be thought necessary, the Court may make such order or orders as to it shall seem fit. The provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1882," and the amendments thereof as to compensation for taking Native land shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the taking of such earth, stone, boulders, or sand under this Act.