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An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand

No. 29. — The Chief Commissioner to Mr. Commissioner Johnson

No. 29.
The Chief Commissioner to Mr. Commissioner Johnson.

Circular.To furnish, a Report of Land Purchases in his District.Land Commissioner's Office, Auckland, 18th March, 1856.

Sir,

I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to request that you will furnish to this office with the least possible delay, a statement of the lands that have been purchased by you from the Natives in your district, showing the estimated number of acres in each purchase, the price paid, and whether in one or more instalments.

You will also be good enough to send in an account, showing the disbursements made by you up to the end of this month, either for the purchase or for contingent expenses incurred in connection therewith, the balance in your hands, and whether there are any existing liabilities in the shape of promises to the Natives to purchase certain lauds from them, which have not yet been fulfilled; and if so, by whom such promises were made. You will also furnish, without delay, any deeds or other documents connected with the transfer of land in your district, in order that they may be recovered in the Colonial Secretary's Office.

In transmitting these documents, His Excellency further directs that you should furnish a general report of the state of the Natives in your district, their willingness or otherwise to dispose of land, stating the quantity and quality of such land, and the average price per acre, at which you think it can be obtained, with all such other information in reference to the feeling of the Natives towards the British Government as your local experience and general knowledge of your district may suggest.

I have, &c.,

Donald McLean,
Chief Commissioner.

J. G. Johnson, Esq., J.P.,
District Commissioner.