AHIRAU

CREATED   5 December 1877

Coromandel Minute Book 3 page 36

AREA   203 acres

PLAN   Hamilton Maori Land plan 3686-71

OWNERS   Repiu Tokata solely

CERTIFICATE OF TITLE (Hamilton Land Registry) 29/235

PURCHASED BY   Benjamin Gilmer

DATE   18 July 1878

PURCHASE PRICE   £56

TRANSFER DOCUMENT

(Hamilton Land Registry) None located2

The Court in August 1881 determined that the block was held in freehold tenure by Gilmer.3 Gilmer transferred the block to the Mercury Bay Sawmill Company Limited, which later became part of the Kauri Timber Company Limited.

I   Supporting Papers #N148.

2   Purchase referred to in AJHR, 1883, G-6, page 6. Supporting Papers #U15.3.

3 Order of the Court, 23 August 1881. Maori Land Court Hamilton Block Orders file C192.

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