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A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.

No. 10. — Copy of letter from the Under Secretary Native Department, to Mr. Alexander Mackay

No. 10.
Copy of letter from the Under Secretary Native Department, to Mr. Alexander Mackay.

Wellington, August 29th, 1870.

Sir,—

With reference to your memorandum of August 25th, in which you report that the County Government of Westland, in consequence of the roadway fronting Sections 38, 89, and 40, Native reserve, Arahura, having been washed away, proposes to make a road, at the cost of £400, between Sections 34 and 38, and along the rear of the Native reserve, for the purpose of giving access to the Native reserve lands abutting on the proposed line of road, and recommend a contribution from the Native Reserve Fund, to the extent of £200, one half of the estimated cost of the proposed work; also suggesting that the Native Reserve Fund will have to purchase 390 acres to keep the reserve its present size, the cost of which at 10s. per acre would amount to £195. I have the honour by direction of Mr. McLean to convey to you his authority to contribute £200 towards the proposed line of road out of the Native Reserve Fund, under the conditions named by you; and, if necessary, to expend a sum of £195 in the purchase of 390 acres of land to keep the reserve its present size.

I have, &c.,

G. S. Cooper,
Under Secretary.

Alexander Mackay, Esq., Native Commissioner.

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