Minute by Deputy Waste Lands Commissioner.

The surveyor has been employed by the authority of the Provincial Government (vide correspondence 1502/65); and I beg to add, for his Honour's information and that of the General Government, that when the Waiuku Block was surveyed in 1855 all the Native reserves therein were defined, the portion of land at present adverted to not being one of them; that the block was subdivided for sale in 1856 by the Provincial Government, and then the spot alluded to, together with another adjoining piece of land, were set aside for the temporary accommodation of the Natives trading at Waiuku, in order that they might not interfere with intending settlers. The correspondence above quoted will show how the case has been recently dealt with.—H. N. Warner, Deputy Waste Lands Commissioner. 9th December, 1865.