No. 9.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to His Honor the Superintendent, Otago.

Sir,—

Referring to your letter of the 26th June last, No. 40, transmitting a map of the Public Reserves in Dunedin, with a schedule of descriptive boundaries, and requesting that these reserves might be granted to the Superintendent of the Province of Otago as a Corporation, in terms of the Public Reserves Act, I am directed by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government to inform you that neither the map nor the descriptions alluded to have been received, and which it is necessary should be in possession of the Government before any steps can be taken towards complying with your wishes. I have, &c.,