Volume 4: The Crown, The Treaty and the Hauraki Tribes 1800-1885

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THE CROWN, THE TREATY, AND THE HAURAKI TRIBES, 1800–1885

TABLE 1: PREEMPTION WAIVER CLAIMS IN GULF ISLANDS (claims before Bell only)

OLC No.

Purchaser

Vendor

Location

Original

acreage

Ultimate disposal

1130 &

Whitaker &

Ngati Maru

Gt Barrier Is

3500

1848, disallowed for lack of

1131

Du Moulin

 

 

 

survey; Bell awards 5,463 acres out

of surveyed area of 28,608 acres;

 

 

 

 

 

Crown retains difference

1132

Whitaker

Ngati Paoa

Waiheke

700

1848, disallowed because

negotiated before formal consent

of Gov; Bell grant of 610 acres &

further order for 91 acres survey

allowance

1140

Brown &

Campbell

Ngati Paoa

Waiheke

unknown

1848, disallowed; N' Paoa except

block as already sold to claimants

in subsequent alienation to Govt;

 

 

 

 

 

Bell grant of 67 acres

1164

Chisholm

Patukirikiri

Waiheke

850

1848, Matson reports that

claimant had not complied with

survey requirements; claim never

formally disallowed but Govt

proceeds as though land belongs

to Crown; N' Paoa objections in

1850s; Bell awards 390 acres but

allows claimant to select at

 

 

 

 

 

Papakura adjoining his other

pre-emption holdings

1178

Whitaker &

Halls

Ngati Paoa

Waiheke

700

1848, disallowed; Bell awards £350

as equivalent to 700 acres, all

water frontage having been sold

in interim

1214 &

de Witte

Ngati Paoa

Waiheke

700

1848, disallowed; Bell awards

1215

 

(w. Patukiriri

consent)

 

 

280 acres

1216-

Brigham

Ngati Maru

Waiheke

2550

1848, compensated with

1218

 

& Ngati Paoa

 

 

debentures for £290

1235

Merrick

Ngati Paoa

Waiheke

900

1848, disallowed for lack of

survey, Bell grant for 368 acres

1268

McGregor

Ngati Tamatera

Coromandel

600

1848, disallowed; Bell grant of

 

 

 

 

 

93 acres

1269

Peppercorne

Patukirikiri

Coromandel

& Coleville

800 acres

1848, Matson reports purchase

incomplete & non-appearance of

claimant, grant disallowed;

subsequent compensation of £125

Source: OLC series 1; AJHR 1863 D–14

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