New Zealand. Analysis.
Title. | |
Preamble. | |
1. | Short Title. |
2. | Native Land Court to inquire whether any other Natives than the registered owners entitled to share of lands in Schedule. |
3. | To be a final settlement of all claims thereto |
Schedule. |
1894, No. 22.— Local. An Act to define and determine certain alleged Native Claims Title..
Whereas
by memorials of ownership heretofore issued by thePreamble.
Native Land Court under the provisions of "The Native Land Act, 1873," certain aboriginal natives of New Zealand (the survivors of whom, and successors duly appointed by the Native Land Court of such of them as are deceased, are hereinafter referred to as "the registered owners") were adjudged to be the owners according to Native custom of several blocks of land respectively mentioned in the first column of the Schedule hereto:And whereas the said registered owners, on the dates respectively specified in the second column of the said Schedule, sold the said lands, with all the rights and appurtenances thereto belonging or appertaining, to Her Majesty the Queen, for the consideration in each case specified in the third column of the said Schedule:
And whereas it has been alleged by petitions to Parliament and otherwise that other Natives besides the registered owners had equitable claims in and to the said lands not recognised by the said memorials of ownership:
And whereas, with the consent of the said registered owners, the sums specified in the fourth column of the said Schedule have in each case respectively been retained by the Government out of the consideration aforesaid, pending an inquiry by the Native Land Court as to such equitable claims, and for distribution by the Government in such manner as that Court may after such inquiry direct:
Be it therefore enacted
by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—Schedule. Schedule.
First Column. | Second Column. | Third Column. | Fourth Column. | ||||
Name of Block, Area, and Locality. | Date of Sale to Her Majesty. | Total Consideration. | Portion of Consideration retained by Government for Benefit of Equitable Owners, if any. | ||||
£ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
Ngaere: 7,500 acres, Ngaere Survey District, Taranaki Land District | 24th October, 1893 | 3,750 | 0 | 0 | 1,875 | 0 | 0 |
Ngaturipukunui: 496 acres, Mangakahia Survey District, Auckland Land District | 8th December, 1893 | 99 | 4 | 0 | 49 | 12 | 0 |
Kauaeranga: 3,672 acres, Motatau and Mangakahia Survey Districts, Auckland Land District | 8th December, 1893 | 734 | 8 | 0 | 367 | 4 | 0 |