Copy of award of the Commissioner for investigating and determining titles and claims to land in New Zealand. Auckland, 31st March, 1845.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 81, 25 April 1846, Page 4

Copy of award of the Commissioner for investigating and determining titles and claims to land in New Zealand. Auckland, 31st March, 1845.

Wanganui. I, William Spain, her Majesty's Commissioner for investigating and determining titles and claims to land in New Zealand, do hereby determine and award that, upon payment by the New Zealand Company of the sum of one thousand pounds sterling to the Protector of Aborigines, or to ?uch other person or persons as his Excellency the Governor may appoint to receive the same, on behalf of the natives of Wanganui resident within the block of land hereinafter awarded to the said Nfiw

Zealand Company ; such sum of one thouttnd pounds to be paid by the said Protector, or by such person or persons appointed by his Excellency as aforesaid, to the before described natives ; or to be applied for their benefit in such proportions, at such times, and in such manner as his Excellency the Governor may think best calculated to promote their interests ; the Directors of the New Zealand Company in London and their successors are entitled to a Crown Grant of a block of forty thousand (40,000) acres of land situate, lying and being in the district or settlement of Petre, otherwise called Wanganui in the Southern Division of New Zealand ; which said block of land is more particularly delineated and set forth upon the accompanying plan,* enclosure No. 10; saving and always excepting as follows: All the pas, burying-places, and grounds actually in cultivation by the natives situate within any part of the before described block of land hereby awarded to the New Zealand Company as aforesaid ;-j- the limits of the pas to be the ground fenced in around their native houses including the grouud in cultivation or occupation around the adjoining houses without the fence ; and cultivations as those tracts of country which are now used by the natives for vegetable productions, or which have been so used by the aboriginal natives of New Zealand since the establishment of the colony : and also excepting all the native reserves equal to one-tenth of the forty thousand acres hereby awarded to the said Company, part of which said native reserves have already been chosen and are marked yellow upon the said plan of the block of land hereinbefore referred to, and the remainder of such reserves are to be chosen according to the rate of one choice in ten : and also excepting " St. Mary's Lake" and all the native eel-cuts and right of fishing upon the lakes "St. Mary" " Medina" " Dutch Lagoon" and " Widgeon Lake" : and also excepting any portions of land within any part of the block of land hereinbefore described, and hereby awarded to the said Company, to which private claimants have already or may hereafter prove before the Commissioner of Land Claims, a title prior to the purchase by the New Zealand Company. I have, &c, (Signed) William Spain, Commissioner. (True Copy) M. Richmond, Supt.

Copy of award of the Commissioner for investigating and determining titles and claims to land in New Zealand. Auckland, 31st March, 1845. Porirua. I, William Spain, her Majesty's Commissioner for investigating and determining titles to land in New Zealand, do hereby determine and award that, the New Zealand Company is not entitled to a Crown Grant of any land in the district of Porirua. I have, &c, (Signed) William Spain, Commissioner. (True Copy) M. Richmond, Supt.

Copy of award of the Commissioner for investigating and determining titles and claims to land in New Zealand. Auckland, 31st March, 1845. Manawatu. I, William Spain, her Majesty's Commissioner for investigating and determining titles and claims to land in New Zealand, do hereby determine and award, that the Directors of the New Zealand Company in London and their successors are entitled to a Crown Grant of a piece of land called Te Tauiwa, situate at Horowenua in New Zealand, and bounded as follows : commencing at a marked tree at Otawa, aud going along the banks of the river to another marked tree at Pukahu, from thence running in a Southerly direction to Koitoke ; it also runs in a line from the tree at Otawa to Kaitoke aforesaid ; the breadth of the two sides being equal, and contains one hundred acres as described in the deed of conveyance hereinbefore referred to, forming enclosure No. 15 to this Report. I have, &c, (Signed) William Spain, Commissioner. (True Copy) M. Richmond, Sup.

♦No. 10, Plan of Block, t This is the exception agreed upon.at Major Richmond's on the 29th January, 1844, copy of the Minutes of which forms enclosure- No. 1 in Final Report on case 374.