No. 33.
The Acting Native Secretary to T. H. Smith, Esq., R.M.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th ultimo, enclosing a deed of conveyance of a piece of land situated on the north side of Rotorua Lake, which the Nga Te Rangiwewehi Tribe are anxious to make over to the Church of England and to his Lordship the Bishop as trustee for the purpose of a cemetery; and I have to inform you that I have handed over the documents to the Colonial Secretary, to whose department they belong, and who will make the necessary arrangements relative thereto.