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

Memorandum

Memorandum.

Manukau.—Recommending certain Crown Grants to be issued.

Convened a meeting of Natives at Pukaki, on the 5th instant. Ihaka and his father Pepene Te Tihi and Pita advised me to be careful in recommending the issue of Crown grants for any land in this neighbourhood of Papakura, except the reserves through which the Great South Road runs, to be made out in Ihaka's name, and a reserve, called Te Wharau, situated on the Tamaki, to be granted to Mohi. Ihaka was very much pleased at the prospect of getting a Crown grant for Papakura, and he is going to call a general meeting of all the Natives in the district of whom he has control, and I am to receive an invitation to attend. His object is to induce the people to subdivide their lands at Te Kuikui and elsewhere, in order that no difficulty shall be in the way of their obtaining Crown grants. The Pukaki Natives objected to the issue of a Crown grant to Te Retimona for Maketu until a general meeting is called.

Recommended that a Crown grant be issued to Ihaka Takaanini for the Papakura Reserve, and that Mohi and Iha a te Ngu should receive a Crown grant for 260 acres, on the Tamaki, called Te Wharau. Also that Paora Tuhaere should receive a grant for land at Orakei, called Purewa. This should be referred to Mr. Sinclair, with a request that he should construct the plan requisite for the issue of the grants at once.

John Rogan,
District Commissioner.

December 13th, 1862.