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Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1907.
1907, No. 72. — An Act to provide for the Exchange, Sale, Reservation, and other Disposition of certain Reserves, Crown Lands, other Lands, and Endowments, and to confer certain Powers on certain Public Bodies
1907, No. 72.
Title. An Act to provide for the Exchange, Sale, Reservation, and other Disposition of certain Reserves, Crown Lands, other Lands, and Endowments, and to confer certain Powers on certain Public Bodies.
| 1. | Short Title. This Act may be cited as the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1907. |
| 2. |
Granting Tahuna-a-huru Block, Rawene, to Mary Josephine Triphook and others. Whereas the parcel of land in the Auckland Land District known as the Tahuna-a-huru Block, described in the First Schedule hereto, originally formed part of an area of land belonging to Katarina Kohu Bryers, deceased: And whereas the said Katarina Kohu Bryers agreed, in conjunction with Mohi Tawhai and other Native chiefs, to convey the land on which Rawene Township now stands to the Crown, but reserved the land described in the said Schedule, but no title to such land has yet issued, and it is desired to issue such title to the children of the said Katarina Kohu Bryers: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor is hereby authorised and empowered to execute a warrant for the issue of a Land Transfer certificate of title for the parcel of land described in the First Schedule hereto in favour of Mary Josephine Triphook, George Bryers, John Bryers, and Charles Bryers, the children of Katarina Kohu Bryers, in equal shares as tenants in page 2 |
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Cancelling reservation over Sections 69, 60, 61, and 64, Town of Kihikihi. Whereas Sections 59 and 60 of the Town of Kihikihi, in the Auckland Land District, containing two acres one rood three perches, more or less, were reserved for the use of aboriginal Natives by a notice published on page 1224 of the Gazette of eighteen hundred and eighty-four; and Sections 61 and 64 in the said town, containing one acre each, were reserved for Native purposes on page 1718 of the said Gazette: And whereas it appears that Natives have not occupied the said land for the last ten years, and the sections are not now required for the purposes for which they have been set apart: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The reservation of Sections 59, 60, 61, and 64, Town of Kihikihi, is hereby cancelled, and the said sections are hereby declared to be Crown land, and may be dealt with under the Land Act, 1892. |
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Granting part of Moeraki Native Reserve to descendants of William Haberfield. Whereas that parcel of land situated to the north-west of the Moeraki Native Reserve, in the Provincial District of Otago, comprising twenty-five acres, more or less, of the estimated value of three hundred and fifty pounds, and described in the Eighteenth Schedule hereto, was granted by the Crown in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three to William Haberfield, now deceased, for his life, with remainder to such of his children by a certain Maori woman named in the said grant as should be living at his death: And whereas none of the said children survived the said William Haberfield, by reason whereof the said land has now reverted to the Crown: And whereas the said William Haberfield left surviving him fifteen grandchildren—to wit, Joseph Pyke Chapman, Charles Chapman, Mary Eeynolds or Rehu, Sarah Reynolds or Dick, Catherine Reynolds or Donaldson, Ellen Reynolds or Wattereus, John Reynolds, Emma Reynolds or Hopa, George Reynolds, Caroline Reynolds or Syversen, Lydia Haberfield or Rissetto, Elizabeth Haberfield, William Isaac Haberfield the younger, Caroline Haberfield the younger, and Annie Haberfield or Maaka: And whereas it is desired to dispose of the said land in manner hereinafter appearing for the benefit of the said grandchildren: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—
The Governor may by warrant authorise the issue of a certificate of title to the said land to John Douglass, of Hampden, in the said provincial district, blacksmith, and John Wilkinson, of Dunedin, solicitor, the executors of the will of the said William Haberfield, for an estate in fee-simple; and the said John Douglass and John Wilkinson shall hold the said land in trust, to sell the same either by page 3 |
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Authorising the purchase of land for certain Maoris, and the sale of Wairarapa Lake foreshore. Whereas certain lands surrounding the Wairarapa Lake, were acquired by the Crown from the Maori owners under agreement of sale dated the thirteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and it was provided in the said agreement that suitable reserves should be provided for such Maoris out of the lands lying between the land so acquired and the said lake, and commonly known as the Wairarapa Lake foreshore: And whereas it is now found inexpedient so to reserve any portion of the said foreshore, but in lieu thereof it is desired to purchase lands elsewhere for the use and occupation of the said Maoris in full satisfaction of all claims by them to any portion of the said foreshore: Be it therefore enacted as follows:
The Governor may purchase land, at a total price not exceeding five thousand pounds, to be vested in trustees to be appointed by him in trust for the aforesaid Maori owners or their successors, in shares proportionate to the interests of such owners in the land so acquired from them by the Crown, as determined by the Native Land Court, the land so vested in the said trustees to be inalienable by way of sale, lease, or mortgage; and the Land Board of the Wellington Land District is also authorised and empowered to deal with the said foreshore, and to dispose of portions thereof to the adjoining owners of land in such areas, at such prices, and in such manner as the Board, with the approval of the Minister of Lands, thinks fit. The provisions of Part IV of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1907, shall not apply to the land transferred under the authority of this section. |