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

No. 3. — The Hon. the Surveyor-General to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary

No. 3.
The Hon. the Surveyor-General to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary.

Whangarei—Purchase of Land recommended. Surveyor-General's Office, 14th December, 1853.

Sir,—

I have the honor to report that I have ascertained from Mr. Johnson that the Natives are willing to sell about 240,000 acres of land at Whangarei for the sum of £600, and that the body of Highlanders desire a part of it for location. I have the honor to suggest that Mr. Johnson be at once despatched to that locality with the sum of money required, and that, in order to render him independent of the delays occasioned in the small sailing vessels trading on the coast, that he be authorized to hire two additional men and a whaleboat.

I have, &c.,
C. W. W. Ligar, Surveyor-General.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary.
Dr. Sinclair,—
Approved as recommended.—G. Grey.

15th December.