No. 1.
Mr. Commissioner Rogan to the Chief Commissioner.

I have the honor to inform you that a survey of a portion of land, amounting to about 6,000 acres, which was offered for sale by the chief Wiremu Nera and some of the Aotea Natives, has been executed, and I have offered a sum of Three hundred pounds (£300) in payment for the land, which the Natives have unanimously declined. They wish me to state that the lowest sum they are disposed to take for this land is Seven hundred pounds (£700).

As I have no authority for paying such amount for land, the greater part of which is of an inferior description, I have agreed with the Natives to refer the question for your consideration.