No. 11.
The Chief Commissioner to Mr. Preece.

I have the honor to transmit herewith the plans of three blocks of land comprised within five islands of the Mercury Group offered for sale to the Government—viz., Kawhiti Ihu, 200 acres; Rapuke, 200 acres; Whakahau lands 750, 100, and 70, 920 acres: total, 1,320 acres, with a rough plan of the Group. These plans have been copied on the margins of three printed forms of deed of sale, which you will have the goodness to fill up and return to this office when the negotiations have been completed.

Herewith also you will receive a general map of the Mercury Bay District, with the square miles of the country lying between the point near the town, on the North, and the Tairua Inlet, on the South, faintly delineated thereupon, so that you may be able roughly to estimate the area of any portion thereof; and, by extending these lines on the same parallels, the same rules will apply to any block which may he offered contiguous to the country embraced within the plan now furnished.