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Tongariro Whenua Ahuareka mo te Katoa

A Bill Intituled

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A Bill Intituled

An Act to authorize the Setting-apart of a certain Tract of Land Title. around and in the vicinity of the Tongariro Mountain as a National Park.

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

1.The Short Title of this Act is "The Tongariro National Short Title. Park Act, 1887."
2.
The Governor in Council, by Proclamation in the Gazette, On its cession by the Native owners, territory around Ruapehu and Tongariro to be proclaimed a national park. shall, so soon as the whole of the lands within the territory described in the Schedule hereto have been ceded to Her Majesty by the Native owners thereof, declare the same to be a national park under this Act, to be known as the Tongariro National Park.

All persons who shall locate or settle upon or occupy the same, or any part thereof, except as hereinafter provided, shall be considered trespassers and removed therefrom.
3.The said park shall be under the control of the Governor, Powers of administration by Governor. Provisions as to public domains to apply thereto. who may manage and administer all the lands therein, and it shall be deemed to be a public domain or domain within the meaning of "The Public Domains Act, 1881;" all the sections of which Act shall apply to such park in the same manner as they apply to public domains, and shall be read mutatis mutandis for the purposes of this Act, and be deemed incorporated therewith.
4.The Native Minister for the time being, Te Heuheu Tukino, Trustees of Tongariro Park. Chief of the Ngatituwharetoa Tribe of aboriginal natives, and such other person as the Governor shall appoint, are hereby constituted Trustees of the said park, and for the purpose of the management thereof are hereby invested with all the powers which the Governor is capable of delegating under "The Public Domains Act, 1881," to trustees of public domains for the management thereof. page 2
(1.)

The aforesaid Te Heuheu Tukino shall hold office as Trustee for the term of his life, subject that he may at any time resign such office.

On the death or resignation by Te Heuheu Tukino of his office as Trustee, his successors to such office shall respectively hold office for four years only, shall be elected at a public meeting of the Ngatituwharetoa Tribe to be convened for the purpose.

The Governor may convene any such meeting, and appoint the time for any such election, make all requisite appointments, and otherwise do all things necessary, by regulations or otherwise as he thinks fit, for the conduct of any such election.

In the event of no such election taking place, or by mischance or neglect no person being elected, or a Trustee not being duly elected, the Governor may nominate any person to be a Trustee in the place of the Trustee who should have been elected; and the person so nominated shall hold office as if he had been duly elected thereto.
(2.)The Trustee to be nominated by the Governor shall hold office for four years only, and his successors shall respectively be appointed for a similar term by the Governor.
(3.)Every successive nominated or elected Trustee may resign his office by letter to the Governor, who shall appoint his successor, or direct his election to be held, as the case may be.
(4.)

The Governor may from time to time nominate any member of the Board to be the Chairman thereof, and fix the time during which he shall hold office; and may remove any such Chairman and appoint to any vacancy to such office.

The Chairman of the Board may at any time resign his office by letter to the Governor.
5.The Governor in Council may from time to time make, alter, or revoke any regulations which he may think necessary for the better administration of this Act and the management of the said park, in addition to any powers he may possess of a like character under "The Public Domains Act, 1881."

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