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Horowhenua Block Act Amendment Act 1906

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Horowhenua Block Act Amendment Act 1906

Local Act		1906 No 1
Date of assent		26 September 1906

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Repeal.
	FIRST SCHEDULE
	SECOND SCHEDULE

An Act to amend “The Horowhenua Block Act, 1896.”

Preamble.

WHEREAS the lands described in the First and Second Schedules hereto are Native lands:

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 of this Act is “The Horowhenua Block Act Amendment Act, 1906.”

2 Repeal.

Paragraph (b) of section eight and the Third Schedule to “The Horowhenua Block Act, 1896,” are hereby repealed, and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:—

Vesting portion of land dealt with in Mary Allan McDonald.

“(b.)

“(i.)

To give effect to a recommendation of the Royal Commission appointed to report on the matters affecting the Horowhenua Block (Parliamentary Paper G.-2 of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six), the land described in the First Schedule hereto, containing approximately eight acres, is hereby vested in Mary Allan McDonald, widow of the late Hector McDonald the younger, as an estate in fee-simple.

“(ii.)

The District Land Registrar of the Wellington District is hereby authorised and directed to issue to the said Mary Allan McDonald, free of charge, on production of a duly approved plan of the land, a certificate of title for the same.

Native Land Court to ascertain ownership of residue.

“(iii.)

The Native Land Court is hereby authorised and directed to ascertain what Natives are equitably entitled to the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, containing approximately one hundred and thirty-two acres, and the relative share or interest of each of them, and to make an order accordingly.

“(iv.)

On receipt of such order the District Land Registrar as aforesaid is hereby authorised and directed to issue a certificate of title in accordance therewith.”

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

All that portion of the Horowhenua Block situated in Block IV, Moutere Survey District, and Block II, Waitohu Survey District, commonly known as McDonald’s Homestead: bounded towards the north-east by the Hokio Stream; towards the east by another portion of the Horowhenua Block; towards the south by a road; and towards the west by another portion of Horowhenua Block to point of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan of the Horowhenua Block in the Wellington District Survey Office.

SECOND SCHEDULE

All that portion of the Horowhenua Block situated in Block IV, Moutere Survey District, and Block II, Waitohu Survey District: bounded towards the north by the Hokio Stream to McDonald’s fence; thence by said fence to the road; along the said road easterly and up McDonald’s fence to Hokio Stream; thence by said stream across the road to Ruamatangi Block; thence by the Ruamatangi Block to Horowhenua No. 9 Block; towards the south by Horowhenua No. 9 Block aforesaid; and towards the west by Subdivision 41 of Horowhenua No. 11b Block to point of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan of the Horowhenua Block in the Wellington District Survey Office.

Horowhenua Block Act Amendment Act 1906