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

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. PORT NICHOLSON.

Port Nicholson. I, William Spain, her Majesty's Commissioner for investigating and determining titles and claims to land in New Zealand, do hereby determina and award that the Directors of the New Zealand Company in London, and their successors are entitled to a Crown Grant of seventy one thousand nine hundred acres of land, situate, lying, and being in the district or settlement of Port Nicholson or Wangauni Atera, in the Southern Division of New Zealand, The country land comprising seven hundred and eight sections of one hundred acres each, making together seventy thousand eight hundred acres, and the town land comprising one thousand one hundred acres, which said land and the several districts in which it is situated are more particularly set forth and described in the schedule contained in enclosure No. 3 of this Report, which said schedule was agreed and determined upon on the Bth day of February, 1844, between Col. William Wakefield, the Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, for and on behalf of that body on the one part, and George Clarke the younger, the Protector of Aborigines for and on their behalf on the other part; and are delineated and set forth upon the accompanying plan to this Report annexed, marked enclosure No. 12, saving and always excepting as follows : —*All the pas, burial places, and grounds actually in cultivation by the natives situated within any of the the said lands hereby awarded to the New Zealand Company as aforesaid. The limits of the pas to be the ground fenced in around their native houses, including the ground in cultivation or occupation around the adjoining houses

* This is the exception agreed upon at the conference at Major Richmond's on Monday the 29th January 1844, a copy of the minutes of which forms enclosure. No. 1. of this Report.

without the Tence — 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 except the thirty-nine native reserves of one hundred acres each, and the one hundred and ten town acres, which said native leserves are also set 'forth in the said schedule and delineated upon the said plan (except the two native reserves of one hundred acres each marked upon -the said schedule as native reserves reserved.) And also except the piece or parcel of land situate at Te-aro, lately granted by his Excellency the Governor to the Wesleyan mission ; and also except so much of that piece of land containing one acre and a half, more or less, situate ia the harbour of Port Nicholson aforesaid, and bounded as follows : on the East by the harbour from Kumutoto creek about 400 feet northwards to the next small creek falling into the harbour, on the north by the said small creek about one hundred feet back from the beach, on the West from the said small creek along the brow of the hill at the back, about four hundred feet to Kumutoto creek at its first turn, and on the South by the said creek to the harbour about two hundred feet, as appears coloured red in the plan forming enclosure No. 3 to case 439, David Scott claimant ; which said last described piece of land I have awarded to the said claimant — and also except so much of that piece of ground situate upjn the beach on the Western shore of Port Nicholson, on that part of the town of Wellington now known as Tborndon Quay, extending from a certain tree to which the fence of George Young the claimant was formerly attached about 350 feet in a northerly direction along the beach just above high water mark, and from the beach to the bank in the rear of the same, as appears coloured red in the plan forming enclosure No. 2 to case 454, George Young claimant, which said last described piece of land I have awarded to the said claimant — and also except all that piece of land adjoining the sea, and situated to the South and by West of the Ngatiawa village, running parallel to the sea and up the ridge at the back — bounded to the North and by East at the distance of 518 8-12 feet from a line drawn from Ngatiawa church to the sea, then measuring from North and by East to South and by West sl| feet, measming from the sea at high water mark to beyond the ridge parrellel to the sea 232 feet, which said last piece of land is better described by the plan forming enclosure No. 6 to case 229, Robert Todd claimant, which I have awarded to Alexander M'Donald the assignee of the said claimant — And also except all that piece or parcel of land situate on the flat where lies the Ngatiawa church, from which church ij bears by compass and runs along the ridge to the south-west J south, its boundary line runs North West North, and South East \ South, and is distant from the Ngatiawa church 300 feet, South West and by South. Its bonndary litre on the East South East is the ridge facing the sea, to which ridge the land runs parallel, and extends to the South West and by South 147 9-12 feet — the boundary line then runs back from the top of the ridge to the North West \ North 527 feet ; it then turns away to the West North West 18 feet 10 inches, it then runs to the North North West 63 feet — then North East 98 feet, then North 134 feet 8 inches, at which point it touches the stream Wye — the land has water frontage extending 80 feet from this point down the stream to a tree marked R.T. comprehending all the land on the right bank of the said stream Wye between the point and tree aforesaid ; the boundary line then runs from the said tree in the direction of South East South, and to the top of the ridge 585 feet ; which said last mentioned piece oi land is better described by the plan forming enclosure No. 3 to case 229 a Robert Tod claimant, which I have awarded to Alexander M'Donald the assignee of the said claimant. I have, &c, (Signed) William Spain, H. M. Commissioner for investigating and determining titles and claims to land in New Zealand. (True Copy) M. Richmond, Supt.