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TUESDAY 11^th DECEMBER 1900

OTAKI

Court opened at 10 am.

Present – the same

No. 532 TE AWAMATE

Application for Partition

Lots 26 to 30 containing a2 – r0 – p30

Present owners successors to Hoani Taipua and Hema te Ao.

It was proposed in the first place to divide the area into 3 equal parts of 0-2-36 each and allow the persons entitled to select the parcels on the understanding that whoever chooses the corner section should give an equivalent in land out of his or their share's the corner section was valued at 80 pounds, the next section fronting the main road at 60 pounds, and the back section fronting the side at rest at 50 pounds. it was finally agreed that the area should be equally divided between Hema Ropata the successor to Hema Te Ao and Pitiera Taipua, Te Umu Taipua, and Tohuroa Hira Parata the successor to Hoani Taipua.

Ordered that the parcels of land known as Te Awamate numbered from 26 to 30 be divided into five parcels and be designated 26 A, B, C, D and E and be vested in the following persons viz

A. Hema Ropata te Ao £1 paid

B. Pitiera Taipua £1

C. Te Umukaihau Taipua £1

D. Tohuroa Hira Parata £1

E. Hema Ropata te Ao £1

In the position indicated on the Diagram marked “a” and that the area be determined by the proportionate value of the land rather than by the proportionate acreage that each person is actually entitled to on an acreage basis.

No 219 WAERENGA NO. 2C

Application to succeed to HOPAEA MAAKA otherwise HOHAIA MAAKA

Hapeta Rangakatukua applicant. Deceased died at Otaki in 1877 left one child a daughter Raiha Maaka. Ordered in favour of

RAIHA MAAKA.

Order 5/

No 457 WAERENGA NO. 2C

Application to succeed to RUTERA HAPETA

Hapeta te Rangikatukua applicant. Deceased died in 1889 at Otaki (16^th January) had issue

Utiku Hapeta, Hoani Hapeta, Wiremu Hapeta, Naera Hapeta, Ratahi Raika

Hopaea Maaka dead had issue Raiha Maaka.

Ordered in favour of Utiku, Hoani, Wiremu, Naera and Ratahi – Raiha Maaka not included as she gets her mother’s share.

Order 5/

No 561 and 562 WAERENGA NO. 2C

Applications to succeed to Rutene Hapeta and Hopaea Maaka.

DISMISSED

No 569 TE AWAMATE Lot’s 26 to 30

Application to succeed to HOANI TAIPUA

Uma Taipua applicant.

Ordered in favour of

Pitiera Taipua, Te Umu Taipua, Tohuroa Hira Parata – equally

Order 5/

(Click on view to see map – Page 250) – PLAN OF SUBDIVISIONS NOS 26 to 30 OTAKI KNOWN AS AWAMATE.

No 79 MUHUNOA NO. 1

Application for Partition – ROPATA TE AO’s case continued

HOANI TAWHIRI sworn

I will speak about the matters I have seen.

The first matter I saw on the huihuinga o te Komiti ki te wakatakato i te rohe. Ko te wahanga o kia Hare Hemi on one side Roera on the other side and Te Puke in the centre. The hui was held on Hare Hemi’s land the rohe’s fixed were the same as they now exist. A clearing was made at Te Kirikiri the people who cleared the land belonged to Ngati Tuhana. When the trees were felled a fence was erected. Te Puke fetched the Ngati Tuhana for Te Manuao to fell the bush.

When we were erecting the fence, another trouble arose at the time the rohe was cut when the rohe reached the Wera a Whango. A number of persons had gone there at the time. Ropata, Kiharoa, Peene, Arama were amongst the party who went there. When they reached Tuainuku and his party arrived. Our party were cutting the rohe through the bush and the other party were out in the open.

Another pakanga was at Te Aruhe takaka (Pa Karaka) Ka hanga ai matou a te taeapa tipurnaga kai. Kaumutu te taeapa ka putu mai ko Tuainuku. Hemi Kuti, Wiremu Paiaka, Tame Hurahia, Henare Roera wanted to bring their plough to the same part we had fenced. Self and others were present and prevented Tuainuku and others from putting the bullock in the enclosure, but afterwards owing to their numbers they succeeded in putting in the bullocks. Nokai was grown on the land by either party.

I did not see Pare (Ngaone) at the quarrel at Te Aruhepihata but I saw her at Te Wera a Whango. Afterwards Te Puke put stock on the land a tae ki katoa. I muri i te pakanga tua toru (3) ka noho nga hipi.

Another pakanga (4) tuawha. Hukiki and his party attempted to pull down the fence.

INIA HAKARAIA and Hakaraia were not at these pakanga’s, no we all remained at the kainga. Heoti ana ia matou te mutunga SAW peach trees and apples at Kauaepango. These trees belonged to Te Puke I say so because he gathered the fruit.

Reweti Ropata died at Muhunoa after the court. Hema te Ao was the brand affixed to all her horses on the land except Roera Hukiki’s. don’t know where Te Ao died.

INIA HOANI xd

I was born at the old pa at Ohau. Hipora is elder than me. I don’t know where Hipora was born.

I did not see Hipora at Pakaraka could not say where she was but was not at Pakaraka.

Pare was not dead before the Pakanga about the ploughing. Pare was at Te Waerenga at Te Kirikiri when these pakanga’s took place. Pare was not present at the pakanga’s. She was a kaumatua at that time.

I did not see Hakaraia Hoani at Muhunoa. I saw Hakaraia at Hare Hemi’s place where the meeting took place. He was ill at the time. I can’t say whether the brand that Hema used was formerly Hakaraia’s.

I did not hear Te Puke say that he branded the horses indiscriminately. I saw Hipora at the place that was cleared by Ngati Tuhaua, but I don’t know where they came from. Na te pakanga i uru ai au ki te whenua I was hei tamaiti whangai no Hema from my childhood. The persons put in by Te Puke were invited by him for the assistance rendered to protect the land during the various quarrels about it.

Te Hau did not take part in the pakanga. Some of the people were put in the title because of their relationship to Te Puke. Kiharoa was present during the early pakanga’s, but he is not in the title.

Hema put Te Ao Pineaha in the title because he was named after his father.

Case closed.

2/ paid £1 paid £1 paid

No 669 MAN KUK NO. 4E

Application to succeed to PAREKAHAKAHA

Riparata Whareakaaka applicant. Deceased died at Waikato in 1899 in December no issue

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Ordered in favour of

Riperata Whareakaaka and Ruhia te Naera equally

Order 5/ paid

Court adjourned till the 12^th instant.

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