Aorere Accretion determination of status and ownership of land
...the original owners and William Gibbs who is the original grantee of the adjoining section, where it seems they agreed to amend the boundaries, and there was a conveyance in 1875 of part of the land from the original owners to William Caverly Riley. The historical list of owners has a written note recording that the block was a state forest,11 which may have been a mistake and the cause of the land record falling through the cracks.