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Enclosure in No.2.
Return showing the proportion of Population to Reserves at Kaiapoi and Moeraki.
| No. of Resorves. | Situation. | Population. | ||||||
| Total. | Adults. | Children. | Remarks. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | |||||
| Acres. | ||||||||
| 1 | Tuahiwi | 2,640 | 200 | Estimated number of claimants resident on the spot and on the Peninsula. The major part of the latter are at present living on and occupying the principal part of the Port Levy Reserve, though their claim in it does not exceed an acre of graves purchased by Taiaroa, Pokeae, &c. The Tuahiwi Reserve is a fine and valuable estate, and contains at least 300 acres of wood. It was made of its present extent in order to admit the Moeraki Natives. | ||||
| 2 | KaiKainui | 5 | ||||||
| 12a | Moeraki | 500 | 87 | 29 | 39 | 10 | 9 | Undulating land of the richest and most fertile soil, and, where not cultivated, clothed with light wood. |
| *12b | Do. Te Kuri | Ten acres of timber for sawing, there being little or none of sufficient size on 12a. The land in this case not reserved. | ||||||
| 3,145 | 287 | |||||||
Average nearly eleven acres to each individual.
Walter Mantell,
Late Commissioner.
* The land at Te Kuri was, together with an additional ten acres adjoining, subsequently purchased by the Natives, and grants have been prepared in favour of the under-mentioned persons—viz., for the original section, Matiaha Tiramorehu, Rawiri Te Mamaru, Pita Tipa, Natanshira Waruwarutu, and Arama te Whata Karaka; and for the adjoining section, in favour of Rawiri Te Maire, Henare Mauhara, and Mirekireki Hape.—Alexander Mackay, Commissioner.