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

Matena Tupoki, Wi Tana, and Wi Rqpiha

Matena Tupoki, Wi Tana, and Wi Rqpiha.

The sections to Matena, Wi Tana, and Wi Ropiha were given in the following manner: A fifty acre section was at first promised to these three men in common, as one of the original terms of purchase of the block. They afterwards objected to holding the land as tenants in common, and asked for separate reserves of twenty acres each, and for permission to purchase thirty more, so that each might have a section. This, to encourage the purchase of Crown lands by Natives, I agreed to, and selected the lands in their present position, knowing they would soon come into the market, with which view I specially provided that the twenty-acre reserves should be at the end of the sections fronting on the river, as being the least valuable portions of the land Wi Ropiha's section is now to be purchased entirely, in consequence of a subsequent arrangement by which he gave up his claim to the twenty-acre reserve.