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An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand

Sub-Enclosure

Sub-Enclosure.

Public Notice as to buying or leasing Native Reserves. Superintendent's Office, New Plymouth, 10th June, 1844.

Public notice is hereby given that agreements for the purchase or leasing of Native reserves, being the property of tribes or communities, are illegal and void under the New Zealand Constitution Act, 15 and 16 Victoriæ, c. 72. Persons entering into agreements, or pretended agreements, for such purchases or leases, are hereby warned that they cannot be protected in possession, and render themselves liable to penalties under the Native Lands Purchase Ordinance, Session VIII., No. 19.

Charles Brown,
Superintendent.