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No. 28.
Mr. Commissioner Kemp to the Chief
Commissioner.
Bay of Islands, 16th October, 1858.
Sir,—
I do myself the honor to make the following report of the blocks of land it is proposed should be purchased by the Government, during the ensuing summer, in the District of the Bay of Islands.
| No. | Estimated Quality. | Probable Price. | Locality. | |
| Acres. | £ | |||
| 1 | Puheke Block | 3,000 | 150 | District of Mangonui. |
| 2 | Kohumaru | 4,000 | 200 | District of Mangonui. |
| 3 | Maungataniwha | 8,000 | 250 | District of Mangonui. |
| 4 | Matawherohia | 8,000 | 250 | District of Whangaroa (south side) |
| 5 | Taraire (south) | 4,000 | 200 | District of Whangaroa (south side) |
| 6 | Western side of Lake Omapere | 5,000 | 300 | District of the Bay of Islands (western side). |
| 7 | Hauotapiri | 3,000 | 150 | District of the Bay of Islands (western side). |
| 8 | Kawa-kawa | 5,000 | 350 | District of the Bay of Islands (western side). |
| 9 | Ruapekapeka | 10,000 | 350 | District of the Bay of Islands (western side). |
| 10 | Puawa | 1,000 | 100 | District of the Bay of Islands (western side). |
| Acres, 51,000 | £2,300 |
The outline surveys of the foregoing blocks will probably occupy the whole of the summer months, and during that time negotiations for additional portions may be going on. These, if kept steadily in advance, will furnish, I think, more than sufficient employment for a permanently attached surveyor throughout the year. The delay and uncertainty in the negotiations with the natives is not so great as it was and the terms under which the Government propose to deal with them for their waste lands are now becoming better understood: so that while the pre-emptive right of purchase is exercised only by the Crown, the extinguishment of the native title may go on uninterruptedly for some time to come in this district.
I have, &c.,
H. T. Kemp,
District Commissioner.
Land Purchase Department, Auckland.