Obinemuri District: Ohinemuri 10

On the application of the Crown,9 the Court in October 1887 separately defined the interests the Crown had purchased in Ohinemuri 10A. It awarded the Crown Ohinemuri 10A1 of 36 acres 2 roods, leaving the 3 non-sellers, Wiremu Ngarewa, Henare Pakara and Te Ukumate Onepoto, with Ohinemuri 10A2 of 13 acres 2 roods.10

The Court's awards were shown on a survey plan computed in the Survey Office.11 Ohinemuri 10A1 was declared Crown Land in August 1888.12

Ohinemuri 10A2

In August 1902 I acre o roods 5 perches of Ohinemuri IoA2 was taken under the Public Works Act for the line of the Paeroa - Waihi railway.13 Compensation of £12 was fixed by the Court

in July 1903.14

Ohinemuri 10A2 was surveyed in 1902. Its area, after deduction for the railway, was 12 acres 2 roods 6 perches.15

Ohinemuri 10A2 remains Maori Land.

9 Native Minister to Chief Judge Native Land Court, 27 January 1886. Maori Land Court Hamilton Miscellaneous Papers file H811. Supporting Papers #14.41.

10 Hauraki Minute Book 19 page 232. Supporting Papers #J25.13.

Orders of the Court, 4 October 1887.

Maori Land Court Hamilton Block Orders file H811. Supporting Papers #K57.100–101 and 102–103.

11 Hamilton Maori Land plan 3416(3). Supporting Papers #N127.

12 New Zealand Gazette 1888 pages 899–900. Supporting Papers #W21.2–3.

13 New Zealand Gazette 1902 pages 1779–1780. Supporting Papers #W35.3–4.

14 Hauraki Minute Book 53 page 347. Supporting Papers #.160.34.

Order of the Court, 3 July 1903.

Maori Land Court Hamilton Block Orders file H811. Supporting Papers #K57.113–14.

15 Hamilton Maori Land plan 694. Supporting Papers #N232.

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