Extract from Commissioner Bell's Report.
In the Court of Claims.
1862. 21 May.Commissioner Bell's report. In the matter of the grant, issued 15th February, 1845, to Francis
Robinson for the Island of Hourakina.—Claim 202.
This grant was duly called in by the Attorney-General, and
the description not being found to agree with the survey, the grant was ordered
to be cancelled on the 21st May, 1862.
The claim for the new grant was put in by the attorney of the trustees under
the will of Francis Robinson, who had died since the date of the grant. By the
exemplification of the will produced before me, it appeared that the will was
made on the 27 July, 1855, whereby, after making certain dispositions on behalf
of his widow, he devised and bequeathed all his real and personal estate to
Hardy Robinson, William Sidebotham, and Samuel Wright Wilkinson, upon certain
trusts. Samuel W. Wilkinson renounced the trust on the 27 December, 1855,
leaving Hardy Robinson and William Sidebotham sole trustees, who, in a formal
notice to me, dated the 20th November, 1860, claimed the new grant in their
names as such trustees.
The island was surveyed in 1861, and the total area found to be 360 acres. The
attorney of the trustees, Walter Grahame, of Auckland, being authorized (under
the power of attorney from the trustees, dated 20 November, 1860, and produced
before me) to sell, agreed, under my advice and that of his counsel, T. H.
Bartley, Esq., that the grant should not be immediately issued, but that an
order should be made for its issue either to the trustees or to any one, a
purchaser from them, so as to facilitate the dealing with the land under the
power of attorney.
Order of Court. It is accordingly hereby ordered that a grant be issued for the Island
of Hurakia, containing (360) three hundred and sixty acres, to Hardy Robinson
and William Sidebotham, trustees under the will of the late George Frederick
(l.s.)Robinson, or to such person, being a purchaser from them, as they or
their duly-authorized attorney may, by writing under their or his hand,
designate in that behalf.
F. D. Bell,
Auckland,21 May, 1862.
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Whereas pursuant to the terms of the preceding Order, dated 21st May, 1862, the
1862. 21 June. attorney of the therein named Hardy Robinson and William Sidebotham did,
by writing under his hand, under date this 2lst of June, 1862, designate William
Aitken, of Auckland, land agent, as the person in whose name the grant should
issue: Further Order.
(l.s.)It is hereby ordered that the grant for the Island of Hurakia be issued
to the said William Aitken accordingly.
F. D. Bell,
Auckland, 21 June, 1862.
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Whereas the above named William Aitken has assigned his interest in the Island
1862. 25 June. of Hurakia to the Honorable Reader Wood, Colonial Treasurer of New
Zealand. Further Order.
The preceding Order, dated 21st June, 1862, is hereby cancelled, and it is
(l.s.)ordered that the grant for the said island be issued to Reader Gilson
Wood accordingly.
F. D. Bell,
Auckland,25 June, 1862.
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It is hereby directed that a Crown grant be issued to Hardy Robinson and
William No. date.
Further Order. Sidebotham for fifty-four (54) acres, being the survey allowance for the
survey of the Island of "Hurakia," containing 360 acres. To be selected out of
the waste lands of the Province of Auckland.
Whereas Walter Grahame, of Auckland, the attorney for the above-named Hardy
1864. 21 December. Robinson and William Sidebotham, has, by writing under his hand, dated
20 December, Further Order. 1864, requested that a Crown grant for the fifty-four (54) acres
mentioned in the preceding Order may be issued to William Aitken, of Auckland,
laud agent:
It is hereby directed that a Crown grant for (54) fifty-four acres of land,
(l.s.) being Lot 46, Parish of Omaru, County of Marsden, be issued to the said
William Aitken accordingly.
Alfred Domett,
Dec. 21/64.
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A True Copy of Witnesses' Evidence, Commissioners' Reports, and Orders
of No. 202.O.L.C.Court.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington,
20 December, 1878.
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