Extract From Commissioner's Report.
A Deed
of Sale was executed by the above-named Chiefs and others, and Ururoa hasLand transferred to P. Donovan.
admitted the payment they received, and the alienation of the land. Thomas Spicer has sworn to the resale and transfer of this Land, by the original purchaser, to the claimant; and he being the only person who has sent in a claim for the said Land, the Commissioner therefore respectfully recommends that a Grant for the above-described Land should be issued to Patrick Donovan, his heirs and assigns, for ever. Excepting 100 feet from high-water mark.
Edward L. Godfrey,
Commissioner.
A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Extract. No.79.O.L.C.
Wellington, 4th November, 1878.