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No. 13.
[Extract from New Zealand Gazette.]
G. F. Bowen, Governor.
A Proclamation.Whereas by the tenth section of "The Native Lands Act, 1867," it is enacted that any notification published in the New Zealand Gazette, and purporting to be made by the authority of the Governor, and stating that the Native title over any land therein described had been extinguished previously to a date therein specified, shall be received in the Native Land Court, and by and before every Judge thereof, in all matters which shall at any time be depending in or before such Court, or before any Judge thereof, as conclusive proof that the Native title over the land described in such notice had been extinguished at some time previously to the date therein specified, and that such land on such date had ceased to be Native land within the meaning of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries within which the Native title has been extinguished should be accurately defined between the summit of Pukemoremore and the Puniu River:
Now, therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby give notice that the Native title over the block of land contained within the boundaries mentioned or described in the schedule hereunto annexed had been extinguished previously to the third day of September, 1865.
Schedule.
All the land lying within the following lines, that is to say,
commencing at Pukorokoro, in the Gulf of the Thames, thence proceeding southward in
a straight line to the Hapuakohe Pass; thence in a straight line to the summit of
Pukemoremore; thence in a straight line to a conical hill named Kopuahau (otherwise
called the summit of Maungakawa); thence to the summit of a peak called page 33
Takinga Wairua (Pukekura); and from thence
to the southern point of Section 55, otherwise known as Orakau, in the Parish of
Puniu; and thence by a straight line to the south-eastern point of Section 48, on
the Puniu River; thence following the Puniu River to its junction with the Waipa
River; thence in a straight line to the summit of Pirongia; thence in a straight
line to the nearest point of the Waitetuna River; thence by the Waitetuna River to
Whaiugaroa Harbour; thence by the harbour to the sea; thence by the sea to the
Waikato Heads; thence by the Waikato River to the junction of the Mangatawhiri;
thence by the Mangatawhiri River to the southern angle of the District of East
Wairoa (being a district under the provisions of "The New Zealand Settlements Act,
1863"); thence in a straight line to the Surrey Redoubt; thence in a straight line
to the Esk Redoubt; thence in a straight line to the commencing-point at Pukorokoro.
Dated this nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, at Wellington.
By His Excellency's command.