Extract from Commissioner's Report.
1844. 10 March.
The
right of Nopera Panakareao to alienate this land has been contested by the chiefCommissioner's report.
Pororua, his tribe living thereon. In consequence of the violence of this dispute, the examination of this Claim was not proceeded with. The Claimant having stated his desire to cede any title he may possess to this purchase to the Government for a compensation in land, at the rate of seven shillings and eightpence per acre, upon the amount of his expenditure of £220 . 7 . 0, the Commissioner therefore respectfully recommends that a Grant for 575 acres should be issued to Samuel H. Ford, his heirs and assigns for ever, excepting 100 feet from high-water mark, upon his surrendering the original deeds of purchase for the above described land to the Government.
Edward L. Godfrey,
Commissioner.
Robt. FitzRoy. Governor's award.
A True Copy of Original Deeds, Translations, and Commissioner's Report. No. 300 d.O.L.C.
Wellington, 25th April, 1879.