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Mere Taka Land-grant Act 1892

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Preamble.

Short Title.

Grant of land to Mere Taka.

Schedule

Mere Taka Land-grant Act 1892

Public Act		1892 No 13
Date of assent		31 August 1892

	Title
	Preamble.
1	Short Title.
2	Grant of land to Mere Taka.
	Schedule

An Act to authorise a Grant of Land at Tauranga to Mere Taka, an Aboriginal Native.

Preamble.

WHEREAS by agreement dated at Tauranga the fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, Herbert W. Brabant, the Commissioner for the Tauranga District lands, agreed on behalf of Her Majesty to give six acres of Crown land described in the Schedule hereto to Mere Taka, in consideration of her ceding to Her Majesty all her right, title, and interest in the Waikorere Block of land situated at Maunganui, Bay of Plenty, containing seventy-one and a quarter acres; and the said Mere Taka has fulfilled her part of the agreement by signing the deed of conveyance to Her Majesty of the aforesaid block:

And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Governor to grant the land described in the Schedule to Mere Taka in fulfilment of the agreement made on behalf of Her Majesty as aforesaid:

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 Mere Taka Land-grant Act, 1892.”

2 Grant of land to Mere Taka.

The Governor may, at any time after the passing of this Act, direct a Crown grant for the lands described in the Schedule hereto to issue to Mere Taka and her heirs, in fulfilment by or on behalf of Her Majesty of the above-recited agreement.

Schedule

All that parcel of land situate in the Land District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 6 acres, more or less, being Section No. 214, Parish of Te Puna, Tauranga County. Bounded north-easterly by Section No. 215, 965 links; southeasterly by a public road, 100 links wide; south-westerly by a public road 100 links wide, 763 links; north-westerly by Section No. 216 to commencing-point, 710 links; be all the aforesaid linkages either more or less.

Mere Taka Land-grant Act 1892