An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand
Land Claims Commissioner to be appointed
Land Claims Commissioner to be appointed.
You will understand, however, that it is not my intention to abandon the plan of instituting a Commission to inquire into the titles or claims to land in New Zealand, but that, on the contrary, I fully intend to carry it into execution, and that I write the present instructions in order that means may be taken for executing it with the greater accuracy as well as acknowledged impartiality. For this purpose I shall probably find it necessary to send out a Commissioner from this country.
I have, &c.,
J. Russell.
His Excellency Governor Sir George Gipps.