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Maori Deeds of Old Private Land Purchases in New Zealand, From the Year 1815 to 1840, with Pre-Emptive and Other Claims

Extract from Commissioner's Report

Extract from Commissioner's Report.

1844. 10 March.The right of Nopera Panakareao to alienate this land has been contested by the chief Commissioner's report. Pororua, his tribe living thereon. In consequence of the violence of this dispute, the examination of this Claim was not proceeded with. The Claimant having stated his desire to cede any title he may possess to this purchase to the Government for a compensation in land, at the rate of seven shillings and eightpence per acre, upon the amount of his expenditure of £220 . 7 . 0, the Commissioner therefore respectfully recommends that a Grant for 575 acres should be issued to Samuel H. Ford, his heirs and assigns for ever, excepting 100 feet from high-water mark, upon his surrendering the original deeds of purchase for the above described land to the Government.

Edward L. Godfrey,
Commissioner.

Bay of Islands,10th March, 1844.page 47Minute.—Upon the above mentioned terms I award to Samuel H. Ford Seventeen hundred and twenty-five acres (or £1,725), land credit at the Treasury. 20th May, 1844.

Robt. FitzRoy.Governor's award.

A True Copy of Original Deeds, Translations, and Commissioner's Report.No. 300d.O.L.C.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, 25th April, 1879.