Copy of Order in Council dedicating the 2000 acres, set apart in terms of Stewart's Island purchase, as an endowment for school purposes for the benefit of the Natives of the Ngaitahu and Ngatimamoe tribes.

Whereas by "The New Zealand Native Reserves Act, 1856," it is enacted that the page 73Commissioners appointed under the said Act may, with the assent of the Governor, set apart any lands which shall have been reserved or set apart for the benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Colony, over which lands the Native Title shall have been extinguished, by way of special endowment for schools, hospitals, or other eleemosynary institutions, for the benefit of the said aboriginal inhabitants:

And whereas by "The Native Reserves Amendment Act, 1862," it is enacted that, from and after a certain date all the powers and authorities, which by the said first-recited Act, are given to, or vested in, or which may be exercised by Commissioners appointed under the said Act, shall vest in, and may be exercised by the Governor; and that where, under the provisions of the said first-recited Act, any act is required to be done by Commissioners with the approval or assent of the Governor, it shall be sufficient if such act be done by me Governor with the advice of his Executive Council:

And whereas the piece of land described in the Schedule hereto has been set apart for the benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Colony, and the Native Title over the same has been extinguished, and it is expedient that the same should be set apart for the purposes hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise and pursuance of the powers in him vested by the said recited Acts, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, doth hereby Bet apart all those pieces of land described in the Schedule hereto as an endowment for schools, for the construction and repair of school buildings, and other eleemosynary institutions if any, and providing masters and teachers, and payments of salaries of such masters and teachers, and generally for the purpose of founding and maintaining schools for the instruction, education, and benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand, being the Ngaitahu and Ngatimamoe Tribes.