Tauranga District Lands Act 1868
Tauranga District Lands Act 1868
Tauranga District Lands Act 1868
Tauranga District Lands Act 1868
Public Act |
1868 No 35 |
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Date of assent |
16 October 1868 |
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Contents
An Act to amend “The Tauranga District Lands Act 1867.”
Preamble.
WHEREAS by an Order in Council made the eighteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five and therein referred to as a Proclamation it was intended to bring under the provisions of “The New Zealand Settlements Act”
a certain district supposed to include all the lands of the Ngaiterangi Tribe and stated in the said Order to contain two hundred and fourteen thousand acres of land And whereas it was intended under the authority of the said Order to carry into effect a promise and arrangement as to the whole of the said lands of the said Tribe of Ngaiterangi and to the said area of two hundred and fourteen thousand acres made by Sir George Grey Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath then being the Governor of New Zealand at Tauranga on the sixth day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four and accepted by the said Ngaiterangi Tribe And whereas by “The Tauranga District Lands Act 1867”
doubts as to the validity of the said Order were removed And whereas on a survey of the land described in the Schedules to the said Order and Act it appears that the description of the land set forth in the Schedules to the said Order and Act does not include the whole of the lands of the Ngaiterangi Tribe intended to be taken by the said Order in Council nor the said area of two hundred and fourteen thousand acres And whereas the said Tribe are desirous that the promise and arrangement aforesaid should be carried out according to its full intent and it is expedient for that purpose to amend the said Schedule so as to include the whole lands of the said Tribe
Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—
1 Short Title.
The Short Title to this Act shall be “The Tauranga District Lands Act 1868.”
2 Schedule to “The Tauranga District Lands Act 1867”
amended.
In lieu of the Schedule to “The Tauranga District Lands Act 1867”
there shall be substituted the Schedule to this Act and the Schedule hereto shall be deemed and taken to have been from the time of the making of the said Order in Council inserted in the said Order as the Schedule thereto in lieu of the Schedule thereto and the said Order shall be construed and read accordingly and the Schedule hereto shall be deemed and taken to have been from the time of the passing of “The Tauranga District Lands Act 1867”
inserted therein as the Schedule thereto in lieu of the Schedule thereto and the said Act shall be construed and read accordingly and all proceedings taken or hereafter to be taken in fulfilment of the said promise and arrangement in reference to lands within the boundaries in the Schedule hereto shall be deemed to have been taken under authority of the said Order and Act.
Schedule
All that land estimated to contain two hundred and fourteen thousand acres known as the Tauranga Block Bounded on the North-east by the sea from Ngakuri-a-whare Point to Wairakei Creek on the South-east by a line from the mouth of the Wairakei Creek to Otara from thence to Otanewainuku from thence to Poutiki on the South-west by a line from Poutiki to the summit of the watershed of the dividing range of hills between the East Coast and the Thames Valley and thence following the said watershed northward to the summit of the Aroha Mountain and on the North-west by a straight line from the summit of the Aroha Mountain to Ngakuri-a-whare Point.
Together with the Island of Tuhua or Mayor Island and such portions of Motiti or Flat Island as shall be adjudged to belong to the Ngaiterangi Tribe or to individual members thereof.