The Governor-General may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, vest the control of the reserves mentioned in section 20 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1921–22 in a Board of Control constituted by him for the purpose, consisting of not less than 6 persons, of whom 5 shall be members of Ngati-Tarawhai, Subtribe of the Arawa Tribe. The Governor-General may by Order in Council make regulations prescribing the practice and procedure of the Board of Control.

Notwithstanding the cession to His Majesty of any lands affected by this section, the former Maori owners thereof shall have at all times free right of access to any ancestral burial grounds that may be included therein, and shall also have the right to bury deceased Maori in any such burial grounds.

For the administration of the reserves ceded to His Majesty pursuant to section 33 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1919 the Governor-General may, acting under the authority of section 13 of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908, appoint a special Board of Control, consisting of not less than 6 persons, of whom 5 shall be members of the Ngatipikiao Tribe.

Notwithstanding the cession to His Majesty, the former Maori owners thereof shall have at all times free right of access to any ancestral burial grounds that may be included therein, and shall also have the right to bury deceased Maori in any such burial grounds.

The administration of the reserves ceded to His Majesty pursuant to section 32 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1922 shall be controlled by the Board of Control provided for by the last preceding section.

The administration of the reserves ceded to His Majesty pursuant to section 31 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1922 shall be controlled and administered by the Board of Control provided for by section 18.

The administration of Rotokakahi Lake (or Green Lake), situate in the Waiariki Maori Land Court District, together with the islands therein, including the Punaruku Island, shall be controlled by a Board of Control constituted by the Governor-General, consisting of not less than 6 persons, of whom 5 shall be members of the Tuhourangi and Ngatitumatawera Subtribes of the Arawa Tribe.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, the Crown may acquire and accept by way of gift from the owners the Maori land situate in the Taranaki Land District, containing 7 acres, more or less, and being Subdivision 2B 1 of Section 2 of Block III of the Waitara Survey District, and known as the Urenui Pa, upon the conditions set forth in an agreement signed by the Maori owners and dated 17 January 1929.

Whenever the Governor-General is satisfied that the majority of the Maori owners of the said land have assented to such gift, and that the said conditions will be observed and performed, he may proclaim that the land has become Crown land, and thereupon the land shall be deemed to be Crown land. Any such Proclamation shall be conclusive as to its own validity.

Upon becoming so proclaimed the said land shall be deemed to be a scenic and historic reserve within the meaning of the Scenery Preservation Act 1908 and shall be dealt with accordingly.

For the purpose of administering and controlling the lands referred to in the East Coast Native Trust Lands Act 1902 and those described in section 7 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1917 the Governor-General may from time to time appoint a Commissioner, who shall be known as the East Coast Commissioner and shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor-General.

During his term of office the Commissioner shall be deemed to have vested in him all property now or hereafter vested by law in the East Coast Commissioner, subject to all trusts, encumbrances, or conditions affecting the same.

The Commissioner so appointed and any officer acting under him may, notwithstanding the provisions of section 59 of the Public Service Act 1912, be an officer in the public service, and all salaries and expenses incurred shall be a charge on the lands vested in the Commissioner, and be paid out of the proceeds thereof.

The person holding office as East Coast Commissioner at the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been appointed under this Act.

The Commissioner may enter into contracts and execute deeds and may sue and be sued in the name of the East Coast Commissioner, but the Commissioner shall not be personally liable in damages for any act done or omitted by him in good faith or in intended pursuance of the authority of this Act.

The Commissioner may from time to time, and subject to the provisions of this Part, exercise the following powers:

No person lending money upon the security of lands vested in the Commissioner, or lands of which the Commissioner is the registered proprietor, shall be concerned to inquire as to the necessity for the loan or as to the application by the Commissioner of such money, and every such security executed by the Commissioner shall be as valid and effectual for the protection of the mortgagee and his assigns as if the Commissioner had been entitled in his own right to the lands comprised in such security. In any such security a power of sale may be granted.

Any memorandum or deed of mortgage given or executed by the Commissioner upon the security of the lands vested in him or any part of such lands shall, upon registration, be deemed to have priority over all mortgages, securities, claims, and trusts (if any) affecting the same, except those already registered at the time of the registration of any such memorandum or deed of mortgage as aforesaid.

In respect of land vested in the Commissioner, the court may, on the application of the Commissioner, settle the lists of the Maori beneficiaries of that land, may determine their relative interests, may appoint successors to any deceased beneficiary and trustees for any beneficiary under disability, and generally may exercise jurisdiction with regard to such land so far as the equitable estate of the beneficiaries is concerned.

The Commissioner, with the approval of the Minister of Maori Affairs, may set apart any land vested in him as a Maori village and may lease allotments in such village upon such terms and conditions as the court directs.

All moneys received by the Commissioner from all or any of the estates vested in him shall be paid into 1 banking account in the name of the East Coast Commissioner, unless in any particular case it shall appear to the Commissioner or the court expedient to keep a separate banking account for the funds of any special trust.

The provisions of sections 549 and 550 of the principal Act shall apply to every trust estate vested in the Commissioner and to all moneys and the income thereof held by the Commissioner on behalf of Maori, and no beneficiary under any trust shall be capable of making a charge or other disposition (except by will) of the interest of such beneficiary in such trust estate or in the rents, profits, or income thereof, or in any moneys raised upon the security thereof.

The Commissioner shall have full power and discretion to raise moneys for any purposes of the whole or any part of the trust estates vested in him and to mortgage or charge all such trust estates together, or any 1 or more of such trust estates, for the purpose of securing moneys advanced or to be advanced to the Commissioner for the purposes of the general trust or for the purposes of any special trust, whether such special trust relates or not to the lands mortgaged or charged. In the Commissioner’s accounts each separate trust estate shall be charged only with such part of such moneys so raised as have been or are intended to be applied for the benefit of such estate in addition to a due proportion of the general charges of administration.

Subject to the approval in writing of the Minister of Maori Affairs, the Commissioner may from time to time, with or without consideration, alienate to His Majesty the King as a site for a school any part of the lands vested in him, freed and discharged from any trust in favour of the beneficiaries and without the necessity of procuring the consent of such beneficiaries.

The court may at any time, if it thinks fit, in respect of any particular trust estate not comprised in any mortgage or charge executed by the Commissioner, and not further required by any scheme of adjustment to provide moneys for the relief of any other estate, and with the consent of the Commissioner in any other case, order that such estate shall be transferred to the beneficiaries ascertained by the court to be entitled thereto, and upon such order taking effect the Commissioner shall be discharged of his trust in respect of such estate; but no such order shall take effect until the Minister of Maori Affairs has signified in writing his approval thereof.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Part or in the principal Act contained, any beneficial owner may transfer any share or interest held by him in any such lands to any other Maori beneficial owner of an interest in the same lands.

Every such transfer, having endorsed thereon the written approval of the Commissioner, shall without the necessity of confirmation by a Maori Land Board be effectual to vest in the transferee the beneficial interest of the transferor expressed to be thereby vested, subject to the legal estate of the Commissioner, and shall be acted upon accordingly by the Commissioner.

The Commissioner shall not approve, except as herein recited, of any such transfer until he is satisfied—

The Commissioner may approve of any transfer of a beneficial interest, whether with or without consideration, if he is satisfied that it is in the interests of the transferor or his family that such transfer should be approved.

A beneficial owner may, with the consent of the Minister of Maori Affairs, alienate to the Commissioner all or any part of his interest in the trust lands. In such case the transfer shall, without the necessity of confirmation by the Maori Land Board, pass the interest to the Commissioner to be held in trust for the remaining owners of the land affected in similar shares to which they theretofore were beneficially entitled.

The Commissioner shall cause to be made up to 30 June in each year a balance sheet and statement of accounts setting forth all receipts and payments and income and expenditure of the Commissioner, and specifying all properties sold, leased, or otherwise dealt with, as well as a report of the transactions of the Commissioner.

Such balance sheet and statement shall be laid before Parliament as early as possible after the commencement of the session, and shall stand referred to the Maori Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives.

The Commissioner shall, once in each year, submit to the court accounts setting forth all moneys received and expended by him and the manner in which he has credited or debited or proposes to credit or debit each trust estate in respect thereof, and shall also supply copies thereof to such representative beneficiaries as the court may direct. The court shall, after giving the beneficiaries an opportunity to be heard if they desire to do so, consider such accounts, and may either confirm such accounts or require alterations to be made therein. Upon such confirmation the accounts, with such alterations as may have been made therein, shall become binding upon and finally and conclusively determine and ascertain the rights of all parties interested in the matter of such accounts. The court or the Minister of Maori Affairs may, if either think fit, require a special audit of any such accounts before the final confirmation. The general expenses of the administration of the trust shall be distributed over the several trust estates as the Commissioner determines, subject to confirmation by the court.

Notwithstanding that the court may have confirmed the said accounts, it may, in its discretion, for good cause reopen and review and readjust as between the beneficiaries or groups of beneficiaries the accounts theretofore confirmed.

The court may, in its discretion, direct the Commissioner to write off and discharge in respect of the accounts of the properties under his control any sums charged or paid for simple or compound interest, or any part thereof, or any other amount which the court is satisfied should be written off; or to alter, amend, or adjust such accounts which, in the opinion of the court, should be so dealt with.

The court may, for the purpose of adjusting the accounts between the respective groups of beneficiaries, direct the Commissioner to write off and discharge any liability against any land comprised in the estate which, in the opinion of the court, should be so written off or discharged.

If the court is satisfied that it is in the interests of the trust estate so to do, it may by order give leave to the Commissioner to sell at the best price obtainable any land forming part of the estate which may be non-revenue producing and unlikely to be a profitable source of income to the trust estate.

Notwithstanding the provision of this section, the Commissioner shall not proceed to sell, except to the Crown, any of the lands vested in him as such Commissioner, without first obtaining the approval in writing of the Minister of Maori Affairs to the sale of such land.

Nothing in Part 19 of the principal Act shall prevent the Crown from acquiring from the Commissioner any land subject to an order for leave to sell under this section, and the consideration for any sale and purchase may be at such price as the Commissioner and the Maori Land Purchase Board agree upon.

The Commissioner shall be deemed to have full power and authority to act in accordance with every order of the court made under this Part, and the Commissioner in so acting shall be deemed to have discharged his duty as a trustee, except in the case of fraud or wilful concealment or misrepresentation by the Commissioner in obtaining such order.

The Commissioner may, out of the accumulated funds or out of any moneys whatsoever due or payable to the beneficial owners of any land vested in and administered by him, retain and pay for patriotic or educational or charitable purposes such amount and to such fund or such person or body as the Commissioner shall deem fit. Before any amount is so paid, the approval of the Minister of Maori Affairs to the proposed payment shall be obtained.

The Mangatu No 1 Empowering Act 1893, the East Coast Native Trust Lands Act 1902, and the East Coast Native Trust Lands Amendment Act 1912 are hereby repealed.

For the purpose of administering and managing the land hereinafter mentioned there shall be constituted a corporate body with perpetual succession and a common seal having the same powers and functions as a body corporate constituted under Part 17 of the principal Act, to be called the Rewi Maniapoto Memorial Committee, and in respect of which the following provisions shall apply:

The land known as Lot 112 of the Town of Kihikihi, being the land referred to and described in section 15 of the Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1911, is hereby vested in the corporate body known as the Rewi Maniapoto Memorial Committee, and the District Land Registrar is hereby directed to issue a certificate of title under the Land Transfer Act 1915 for the said land in the name of the said corporate body.

The corporate body shall hold the said land in trust primarily for the purpose of protecting, improving, maintaining and repairing, and replacing, if necessary, the memorial erected thereon to the memory of Rewi Maniapoto (deceased), and for such other purpose for the benefit of the said Ngati-Maniapoto Tribe as the court shall from time to time determine.

Any committee of management already appointed shall be deemed to have been appointed under this Act.

With regard to the land known as Wainui or Section 313, Parish of Waimana, in the Bay of Plenty, containing 600 acres or thereabouts, vested in trustees in trust for the Ringatu Church pursuant to section 31 of the Maori Land Amendment and Maori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1921–22, the following provisions shall apply:

The Board of Trustees incorporated by the court under the provisions of section 41 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1928 under the name of the Whakarua Park Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) shall be a body corporate and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and may acquire and hold real and personal property of whatsoever nature, sue and be sued in all proceedings criminal or civil, and do and suffer all that corporate bodies may do and suffer.

All property, real or personal, held by the Board shall be deemed to be vested in the Board upon and subject to all trusts, powers, and equities affecting the same.

All land vested in the Board shall be held upon such trusts as the court shall from time to time by order determine.

All land vested in the Board shall when so vested be and be deemed to be Maori land within the meaning of the principal Act.

All land vested in the Board shall be exempt from the provisions of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 and shall not be liable to be rated thereunder.

The Board may from time to time delegate any of its powers and functions (except the power to alienate land and the power of delegation contained in this subsection) to 1 or more committees consisting of such persons, whether trustees or not, as the Board may from time to time appoint.

The court is hereby authorised and empowered, upon the application of any person claiming to be interested if the court is satisfied that the owners consent thereto, to make an order vesting the lands known as Tapuaeteao D1, Tapuaeteao D2, Tapuaeteao D3, Tapuaeteao D4, and Tapuaeteao E2, forming part of the Te Araroa Native Township, situate in the Tairawhiti Maori Land Court District, or any of them, and herein referred to as the said land, in such persons as the court shall decide, not exceeding 7 in number, to be called the Hinerupe Trustees (hereinafter referred to as the said trustees), upon trust for the use, benefit, and occupation of members of the Whanau-a-Tuwhakairiora Tribe.

Upon the making of an order as aforesaid, so much of the said land as is comprised therein shall cease to be a part of the Te Araroa Native Township, and shall be freed and discharged from all right, title, and interest of the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board or of the present beneficial owners of the said land.

Every person having any estate or interest in the said land, and who is deprived thereof or is injuriously affected by the making of an order as aforesaid, shall be entitled to compensation, provided a claim is made therefor either at the time of the making of the said order or within 1 month after the making thereof.

The court shall have full power, authority, and jurisdiction to ascertain and determine what amount of compensation should be paid in respect of the matters mentioned in subsection (3), and the person entitled to be paid such compensation, and to make an order or orders awarding the compensation to the persons entitled thereto. Any sums so awarded for compensation shall be paid by the said Maori Land Board out of the funds held by the said Board on behalf of the beneficiaries of Te Araroa Native Township in the manner and to the persons directed by the court.

All land vested in the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board under the provisions of section 32 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1928 (hereinafter referred to as the said section 32) shall be held by it in trust for the owners beneficially entitled thereto.

The vesting of any such land in the Board shall not affect any valid lease, mortgage, charge, or encumbrance to which the land was subject at the date of that vesting, or the right of any person to enforce a valid contract made with respect to the land before it became so vested, or to obtain confirmation of any alienation under an instrument of alienation theretofore executed.

Any Order in Council purporting to be made under the said section 32 shall be conclusive proof that all the conditions precedent to the making thereof have been duly fulfilled, and no such order shall be questioned on any ground.

An Order in Council made under the said section 32 may at any time be amended, varied, or revoked. Upon the revocation (either wholly or in part) of an Order in Council made under the said section 32 the land affected by such revocation shall cease to be subject to this section and shall revest in the former owners as if it had never become subject to this section, save that such revesting shall not affect any valid transfer, lease, mortgage, charge, or encumbrance to which the land is then subject.

All land held by the Board under this section may be sold, leased, exchanged, or mortgaged by the Board, and the proceeds of any alienation by the Board shall be applied in the first place to payment of the expenses of administration, including a reasonable commission to the Board and all other liabilities to the Board and all rates and other outgoings due or accruing, and any balance shall be paid to the owners of the land. The Board may elect to administer any part of the land under section 523 of the principal Act, and in such case the provisions of that section shall extend and apply to such land and its management and use.

The land shall remain charged in favour of the Board with the payment of the sum paid by the Board, together with interest at the rate of 5 pounds per centum per annum, and the provisions of the principal Act as to the creation and enforcement of charges shall apply to all lands affected by this section. The court may by order direct the amount to be so charged in respect of each parcel of land.

The Board shall not be liable for any rates in respect of any parcel of the land held by it under the provisions of this section in excess of the revenue actually received by the Board from that land during the period in which those rates became due, but the net revenue received by the Board after payment of the current year’s rates received during the next succeeding period may be applied towards payment of such rates. If the rates are not paid within 2 years from the time they are assessed, they must be treated as irrecoverable and must be written off.

With regard to future rates levied upon Maori land within the Otaki Borough which is not vested in the Board the local authority may apply to the court to vest the land affected in the said Board, and the said land shall on the making of such order be deemed to be subject to the provisions of this section as fully and effectually as if it had been vested in the Board by Order in Council under the said section 32. The court may by order at any time revest in the Maori owners the land so vested by court order in the Board.

The land known as the old Native Pa at Kaiapoi, containing 11 acres or thereabouts, and situate in the Rangiora Survey District and called Reserve 873A, is hereby declared to be held by His Majesty the King as a reserve for the benefit of the Maori to whom the same was promised or their descendants.

The land and water known as the Waikuku Lagoon, containing 24 acres or thereabouts, situated in Block VIII, Rangiora Survey District, and being the balance or southern portion of Reserve 1873, is hereby declared to be held by His Majesty the King as a reserve for the same purposes and persons as is prescribed in subsection (1).

The control and management of the said reserves shall vest in a Board of Managers called the Kaiapoi Reserve Board (hereinafter referred to as the said Board), consisting of—

For any cause which may seem to be sufficient the Minister of Maori Affairs may, in writing under his hand, remove from office any member appointed under paragraph (c) of the last preceding subsection. Any vacancy caused by the death, resignation, or removal of any such member may be filled by the Minister of Maori Affairs.

The said Board, with the approval of the Governor-General in Council, may from time to time make bylaws for—

Any person offending against any such bylaw shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding 5 pounds.

All such penalties may be recovered in accordance with Part 3 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957, and shall be paid to the said Board and be applied as other moneys are hereinafter directed to be applied.

The Board is hereby empowered to lease any portion of the said reserves for such period not exceeding 21 years and subject to such rents or conditions and in such manner or form as it may think fit.

Any instrument requiring to be executed by the Board may be executed in the name of the Board by 3 members of the Board (one of whom shall be the Chairman); and any lease may be registered and may be dealt with in the same manner as if it were a lease of Crown lands granted by a Land Board, but the provisions of the Land Act 1924 shall not otherwise apply to any such lease.

All sums of money received under or by virtue of this section shall be applied in managing, administering, and improving the said reserves, and generally towards carrying into execution the purposes and objects of this section, and for any other purpose which the Minister of Maori Affairs may approve, although it may not be strictly applicable to such reserves or to the persons intended to benefit thereunder.

The Board may, if it thinks it necessary or advisable, apply to the court to ascertain and determine who are the persons entitled to the benefit of the said reserves, and the court shall be deemed to have jurisdiction to determine such matters and make orders accordingly. In such case it shall not be compulsory for the court to define the relative shares in which the beneficiaries are so entitled, but the court may in the same or any subsequent order determine such relative shares.

Whereas under the Tongariro National Park Act 1894 the Crown accepted the donation of an area of about 6 508 acres of land by the late Te Heuheu Tukino, Chief of the Ngati-Tuwharetoa Tribe, for the purposes of a National Park:

And whereas lands including the aforesaid area were set apart as a reserve under the Tongariro National Park Act 1922 and the control thereof was placed under the Tongariro National Park Board:

And whereas such Board may lease portions of such lands and issue licences and otherwise derive revenue from such lands:

And whereas the Ngati-Tuwharetoa Tribe is being called on by the Crown to pay fees in respect of its 2-ton motor lorry used for the purpose of transporting for such tribe the necessaries of life over the Tokaanu–Waimarino Road:

And whereas it is expedient that payment of such fees should be remitted:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

No heavy traffic fees shall be payable to the Crown in respect of one only 2-ton motor lorry used on the Tokaanu–Waimarino Road by or for the purposes of the Ngati-Tuwharetoa Tribe or any member of such tribe, or any association or company composed principally of members of such tribe.

The sum of 1,210 pounds paid under the provision of section 26 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1928 to the Mangapu Drainage Board with respect to drainage operations within the drainage district controlled by that Board shall be a charge upon all Maori lands within the said drainage district, and in default of land being awarded as hereinafter mentioned the court may make an order in favour of His Majesty charging all or any of the Maori lands upon which rates were or are levied by the Mangapu Drainage Board with the payment of such proportionate part of the above-mentioned sum as the court shall think just and equitable, together with interest at 5 pounds per centum per annum from date of the advance until repayment, and may vest the land so charged in the Maori Land Board of the district, which shall have similar powers of disposal of the land and the application of the proceeds as are vested in or conferred on the Māori Trustee by section 109 of the Rating Act 1925.

The court in preparing or giving effect to consolidation schemes in the Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land Court District shall in pursuance of its power in that behalf award or appropriate land to the Crown to the value of and in satisfaction or partial satisfaction of the payment mentioned in subsection (1).

Sections 125 and 128 of the Public Works Act 1928 (relating to roads), shall not apply to the sale or subdivision of any portion of the land situate within what is generally known as the Ohinemutu Pa or Village, bounded as follows: towards the east by Lake Rotorua; towards the north by the Utuhina Stream; towards the west and south-west by the main Tauranga–Rotorua road, commencing where the said road crosses the Utuhina Stream, and continuing past the Lake House to where the road passes down to the public wharf at Rotorua; and thence on the south by the last-mentioned road to Lake Rotorua.

Whereas by section 74 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1922 it is enacted that the Governor-General may confer certain powers upon the Whakatane County Council (hereinafter referred to as the said Council) with respect to the supply of water for domestic purposes for the Town of Matata and the district adjoining (hereinafter referred to as the said water supply):

And whereas it is desirable to give the said Council powers to obtain pipeline easement and other rights and appurtenances over Maori land through which the pipeline connected with the said water supply passes:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The court is hereby authorised and empowered to grant to the said Council by order an easement in perpetuity or for a limited term for the use, occupation, and enjoyment of any Maori land whereon or whereunder any pipeline connected with or appertaining to the said water supply shall be, together with the right to enter upon such land or through or over any adjoining land for the purpose of altering, renewing, repairing, or cleansing such pipeline, subject to such terms and conditions as the court may think fit to impose.

Any order made granting rights as aforesaid may be registered against the land which it affects, and it shall not be necessary in the case of land subject to the Land Transfer Act 1915 to produce any certificate of title for the purpose of such registration.

If the said Council ceases for a period of 2 years to use any land in respect of which an order granting rights as aforesaid has been made, such land shall (subject, however, to any special conditions contained in the order made in respect thereof) upon the expiration of such period of 2 years revert to the then owner of the land over which the same was originally ordered, but the said Council shall not be liable to the owner or any other person for so ceasing to use the land. Upon proof to his satisfaction that the right has so reverted to the owner the District Land Registrar may enter upon the Register a memorandum thereof, and such right shall thereupon be deemed to have been determined.

The Council or any person interested may at any time apply to the court for the surrender of any right granted hereunder, and the court may order that the land therein mentioned shall cease to be subject to the right or easement, and any such order may be registered accordingly.

The Governor-General may reserve any portion of the bed of any of the lakes referred to in section 27 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act 1922 or any Crown lands on the border thereof for the use of the Maori, and may vest the management and control thereof in trustees.

The Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board is hereby authorised to pay to such person as the Minister of Maori Affairs may, in writing, from time to time direct out of the rents and other revenues received by the said Board in respect of the land situate in the Tairawhiti Maori Land District, and known as Ahirau Nos 1 and 2 Blocks, such annual sum as the Minister may direct, either for a particular year or for any longer period, to be allocated for the support of the Waiapu Maori Pastorate (Church of England) or such other religious purpose as the Minister shall think expedient, and the Minister may at his discretion at any time and from time to time cancel the authority for any payment directed to be made by him. The receipt of the person named as the payee in any direction to the said Board shall, to the amount of any such payment, be a sufficient discharge to the said Board and to any lessee, and neither the Board nor a lessee shall be bound to inquire as to the application of the money paid under any such direction.

There shall be set aside out of the rents to accrue from the lease to Duncan MacMillan of the land known as the Tapuaeroa 2A 2 Block, situate in the County of Waiapu, such annual sum as the Minister of Maori Affairs may from time to time direct, either for a particular year or any longer period, to be allocated for the support of the Hikurangi Maori Pastorate (Church of England), or such other religious purpose as the Minister of Maori Affairs may from time to time direct, and the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board is hereby authorised to pay to the treasurer of the Diocese of Waiapu out of any rents received for and on behalf of the owners of Tapuaeroa 2A 2 Block the sum so set aside to be applied for the purposes of the Hikurangi Maori Pastorate Fund. The receipt of the treasurer shall be a full discharge to the Board and to the lessee, and neither the Board nor the lessee shall be bound to inquire as to the application of the said sum or any part thereof.

The Minister may, in writing, direct that the provisions of this section shall apply to the rents to accrue from any subsequent lease of the said land for such term, such amount, and on such conditions as the Minister may think expedient, and thereupon the provisions of this section shall apply accordingly.

The Minister may at any time, and from time to time, in writing under his hand, direct that no further payment of the whole or any part of the annual sum so directed to be paid shall thereafter be paid to the said treasurer, and thereupon from the date specified by the Minister the right to claim such moneys shall cease and determine to the extent of or up to the sum stated in writing by the Minister.

The Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board, make an Order in Council prohibiting all alienations of the lands hereinafter referred to or any of them. Any such Order in Council may be at any time varied or revoked.

All the provisions of sections 443 and 444 of the principal Act (relating to prohibition of alienation during negotiations for purchase by the Crown) shall apply during the currency of any such Order in Council to all Maori land affected by the order.

The lands affected by this section are the parcels of land situated in the Waikaremoana West Survey District, and known respectively as (1) Marau, (2) Te Puna, (3) Tikitiki, (4) Takanga, (5) Hopuaruahine East, (6) Hopuaruahine West, (7) Te Apiti, (8) Mokau, (9) Whakaari, (10) Taumataua, (11) Te Maara-o-te-Atua, (12) Waipai, (13) Timi Taihoa Reserve, and (14) Patekaha Island.

Whereas the Maori owners of the land known as the Manukorihi A 1 Block, described in certificate of title, Volume 99, folio 93, of the Taranaki Registry, are desirous of making a gift thereof or of some part thereof for use in connection with the Manukorihi Native Pa:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

The land known as Manukorihi A 2 Block, which was set apart and reserved as a Native reservation by the Governor-General by Order in Council dated 20 September 1926, published in the Gazette of 23 September 1926, page 2795, hereinafter referred to as Manukorihi Pa, together with any portion of the Manukorihi A 1 Block hereinbefore referred to which has been or may be set aside as a Maori reservation, shall be deemed to be 1 Maori reservation and to be for a meeting place for the common use of the members of the Atiawa Maori Tribe, including the beneficial owners of the said land. Any person or body corporate in which the said Manukorihi Pa is vested shall hold and administer the same accordingly, and the land comprised in the said Manukorihi Pa and any further land therein included shall be deemed to be free and exempt from payment of rates to any local authority.

It shall be in the power of the person or body corporate in whom the administration of the said Manukorihi Pa is vested to acquire by purchase, lease, or gift any land being any part of the Manukorihi A 1 Block or being land adjoining or adjacent to the said Manukorihi Pa, and when so acquired such lands shall be deemed to become a Maori reservation under the principal Act and form part of the said Manukorihi Pa.

Whereas pursuant to section 6 of the West Coast Settlement Reserves Amendment Act 1915 the court, by an order made on 9 June 1916, purported to vest portions of the land described in the said section—namely, the parcels containing in the aggregate 451 acres and 4 perches, more or less, and designated by the court as Parihaka Numbers 9, 10, 11A, and 51 (hereinafter referred to as the said land)—in 10 persons upon certain trusts:

And whereas doubts have arisen as to the validity of such order, and it is desirable to confer upon the court the jurisdiction herein appearing:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Upon the commencement of this Act the said land shall cease to be subject to the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act 1892 and shall revest in the beneficial owners thereof.

The court shall have jurisdiction to inquire and determine whether any stock now or heretofore depasturing upon the said land or any stock or personal property used or employed in connection with the said land or any money in the hands of any bank, company, or person ought in its opinion to be vested in the body corporate constituted under this section, and to make 1 or more orders vesting the same or any part thereof accordingly; and every order shall take effect according to its tenor. The court may, pending the settlement of any dispute regarding any moneys, direct that the moneys concerned be paid to the Maori Land Board, whose receipt shall be a sufficient discharge therefor in the same manner as if the money had been paid to the persons entitled thereto.

The parcels of land known as Parihaka 9, Parihaka 10, together with such part not exceeding 50 acres of Parihaka 11A as the court may by its order determine, shall be hereafter exempt from rating under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.

The land containing 10 acres in extent, being part of that comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 54, folio 248, of the Hawke’s Bay Registry, and being part of Lot 1, on Deposited Plan Number 2142 of the Ngatarawa Number 4 Block, situate in the Hawke’s Bay Registration District, and the buildings erected thereon and used for the purpose of a Maori agricultural college, shall not be rateable under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 and are exempt from rates thereon while used for the purpose of the said agricultural college.

Whereas under the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906 (since repealed), and under section 88 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1916, authority was given to provide land for landless Maori as therein mentioned:

And whereas various areas of Crown land in pursuance of the powers in that behalf have been or may be permanently reserved for the purpose:

Be it therefore enacted as follows:

Where the names of persons deemed to be beneficial owners of any land so reserved as aforesaid, or any part thereof, have been published in the Gazette or Kahiti and titles therefor have not already been issued, the District Land Registrar of the appropriate land registration district is authorised, on the request of the Minister of Maori Affairs or any person interested, to issue a certificate of title vesting any part of such land in fee simple in the persons named in such Gazette or Kahiti for an estate in fee simple as tenants in common in the relative interests set out, which relative interests shall be expressed in shares in lieu of acres. Such title shall antevest as from the date of the land being permanently reserved for the purpose.

Where the names of the persons deemed to be entitled have not been published as aforesaid and the Governor-General is satisfied that the beneficial owners have been ascertained after due inquiry, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, direct the District Land Registrar to issue a certificate of title for any such land to which they may be found entitled to the persons so deemed to be entitled, and the District Land Registrar is authorised to issue certificates of title accordingly, vesting the land in the persons entitled as tenants in common in the relative interests set out. Such title may be antevested to any date named in the Governor-General’s Warrant.

All titles issued under the preceding subsections shall have a memorial endorsed thereon that they are issued under and subject to the provisions of this section. Such titles may issue although persons named therein may be deceased, and the interest of any person so deceased shall enure for the benefit of any successor appointed by the court.

All land permanently reserved and allocated in favour of landless Maori under the enactments in this section first recited (whether titles are issued under this section or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Maori land within the meaning of the principal Act.

The said land, or any interest therein, may be acquired by and alienated to the Crown as fully and freely and in the same manner as if it was ordinary Maori land or land within the meaning of the principal Act and any statutory provision to the contrary is declared not to affect such lands.

If and whenever the said land or any portion thereof is not the subject of an alienation or is not in the occupation of any of the beneficial owners, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council published in the Gazette, resume such land or any part thereof, and thereupon the said land shall again become Crown land freed and discharged from any right or claim thereto by the beneficial owner. The former beneficial owners thereof shall be entitled to compensation as if the land had been taken for a public work, and all the provisions of the Public Works Act 1928 as to payment and assessment of compensation shall apply accordingly.

Where the court is satisfied that any beneficial owner cannot be found and that it is in the interests of the owner or in the public interest that the land should be alienated, it may make an order appointing the Māori Trustee to execute as agent and in the name of the owner any instrument of alienation, which instrument may be confirmed, and shall thereupon have the same force and effect, and may be registered in the same manner, as if executed by the owner. All proceeds of any such alienation shall be paid to the Māori Trustee, who shall hold the same in trust for the person beneficially entitled thereto. The death of the owner, either before or after the granting of such court order, shall not invalidate any alienation entered into in good faith.

All land referred to in this section shall be deemed to be subject to the operation of section 30 of the Mining Act 1926.

Where any land permanently reserved pursuant to the enactments referred to in the recital to this section has not been allocated, that land may be dealt with as if it were ordinary Crown land subject to the Land Act 1948.

With regard to all that parcel of land in Block IX, Linkwater Survey District, being Section 39, adjoining Sections 11 and 27 of that survey district, and known as the Mahakipawa Native Cemetery, declared to be a cemetery within the meaning of the Cemeteries Act 1908, it shall be the duty of the trustees appointed in respect of such cemetery to protect, as far as possible, the graves of any Maori buried in such cemetery.

The Maori shall have full right of ingress and regress in and upon such cemetery for the purpose of burying their dead, subject to the supervision of the trustees, and no fees shall be chargeable for the burial of any Maori in such cemetery, or for the land required therefor.

Words used in this Act authorising the appointment of any person by the Governor-General or by the Minister of Maori Affairs shall include the power to remove or suspend him, or reappoint or reinstate him, or appoint another person in his stead, in the discretion of the authority in whom the power of appointment is vested, and in like manner to appoint another in place of any deceased, absent, or otherwise incapacitated holder of such appointment.

The Acts referred to in the Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent indicated, and in any case in which the extent of the repeal is not specified the whole of the Act is hereby repealed.

Notwithstanding the repeal of any such Act or portion thereof, every power and act which may be necessary to complete, carry out, or compel the performance or exercise of any statutory power or authority granted by the repealed enactment and in force at the time of its repeal shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with this Act, continue and be in force for the purpose of continuing and perfecting any act, matter, or thing thereunder, or for the purpose of holding any inquiry or the investigation, issue, or registration of any title thereunder.

When the Governor-General is authorised under any Act hereby repealed to make, grant, or issue his Warrant for the issue of a certificate of title in favour of any person, he may act in pursuance of that authority in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed.

Where any provision in any Act other than the Acts mentioned in the Schedule has heretofore been amended or modified by any of those Acts, and such amendment or modification is subsisting at the passing of this Act, the repeal shall not operate to repeal any such amendment or modification, but the same shall continue to have effect as if this Act had not been passed.