New Zealand: Acts affecting Native Lands, 1886, 1888-91 and 1894-95
1889, No. 7.—Local. An Act to provide for the Determination of Titles to the Blocks of Land known as Poututu A. B, and C, Gisborne District
1889, No. 7.— Local. An Act to provide for the Determination of Titles to the Blocks Title. of Land known as Poututu A. B, and C, Gisborne District.
[16
th September, 1889.]
Whereas
there is now pending in the Native Land Court sittingPreamble.
at Gisborne an inquiry into the right of several parties, Natives and Europeans, claiming interests in certain blocks of land known as Poututu A, B, and C, Gisborne District: And whereas there are involved in the said litigation the interests of other parties now before the Court, both Europeans and Natives, claiming adversely to the aforesaid parties, and also some of them claiming interests in other blocks described in a certain deed dated the twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, hereinafter called the said deed, made between Wiremu Paraone of the one part and Percival Barker of the other part, and purporting to be pledged by that deed as a security for the performance of the contract therein described as made between Wiremu Paraone and Percival Barker respecting the said Poututu Blocks A, B, and C: And whereas it is desirable that the said Court should be empowered to settle the whole of the litigation and claims arising out of the transactions recorded in the said deed, and to make all such orders and decrees and issue all such land-titles as shall be required for the settlement of all the said conflicting interests, and for determining all debts, claims, and demands existing or claimed to exist between the parties asserting any of the aforesaid rights or claims:Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—