Hauraki Minute Book 25 pages 90-102 AREA Hoe o Tainui North i -
Hoe o Tainui North z - 830 acres Hoe o Tainui North 3 -
Hoe o Tainui North 4 - no acres Hoe o Tainui North 5 - moo acres Hoe o Tainui North 6 -
Hoe o Tainui South 1 - moo acres Hoe o Tainui South z - 1420 acres Hoe o Tainui South 3 - 3103 acres Hoe o Tainui South 4 -
PLAN Hamilton Maori Land plan 6229
Hoe o Tainui was included in the proclamation notified in May 1878 that 200,000 acres known as the Piako Block was under negotiation for purchase by the Crown, on account of advances made on it.1
At this time Hoe o Tainui was also known as Whareroa Block.
In May 188o a group lead by Hohaia Ngahiwi, claiming to be the owners of Whareroa, sent a petition to the Governor asking that the proclamation be lifted as it related to Whareroa, because
they have already in ignorance of such Proclamation entered into arrangements for the leasing of the said land.
That your petitioners the owners of the said Block had obtained [in January 1880] special permission from the head of the Survey Department at Auckland to survey the said block ... and, in ignorance of such Proclamation as aforesaid and relying on the faith of such special permission, had with the approval in due form of the said head of the Survey Department entered into arrangements with a licensed surveyor [James Simms] for the survey of the said block, and such surveyor has been paid money on account of such survey, and that the survey was nearly completed when your petitioners the native owners of the said block to their great surprise for the first time heard of such Proclamation by the said surveyor receiving [in March 188o] from the said head of the Survey Department a notice [stating that because of the Proclamation the survey would be illegal].
That wholly apart from their desire to keep faith by completing the arrangements for leasing as aforesaid which had been entered into, and wholly apart from the great hardship to which your
1 New Zealand Gazette 1878 pages 600-608 at page 600. Supporting Papers #WILI-9.
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