No. 7.
Wiremu Kingi Te Koihua, of Pakawau, to His Excellency Governor Browne.
Friend, the Governor, salutations to you. This is a word of mine concerning my pieces of land at Pakawau and Te Rac. I wish to have Crown Grants for these lands, so that I may live securely; also, that I may be able to leave any portion which I please. I have two pieces; I wish, therefore, to have two Crown Grants. This is all,
From your loving friend,
Wiremu Te Koihua.
His Excellency Governor Browne.
Memorandum on the foregoing by Mr. James Mackay, Jun., Assistant Native Secretary.
The writer has a section of 80 acres of land at Te Rae, a few miles north of Pakawau, in Massacre Bay, and I would recommend that he should have a Crown Grant for this. With reference to the other parcel at Pakawau to which he alludes, there is a difficulty.
It has always been asserted by the Natives, that when Major Richmond purchased the Pakawan District, in 1852, it was arranged that Wiremu Te Koihua should have a reserve in the township at the site of his settlement or pa. There is not documentary evidence, however, in support of this claim.
I recently drew the attention of the Superintendent to this matter, and recommended that onehalf of a Government Reserve in the Town of Pakawau should be given up to Wiremu Te Koihua. His Honor stated he would consider the matter.
James Mackay, Jun.