No. 15.
The Assistant Native Secretary (Acting for the Chief Commissioner) to Mr. Commissioner Kemp.

Maihi Paraone Kawhiti, and other chiefs of the Bay of Islands, having repeatedly expressed a wish that the Government would accept a block of land at Te Kawa Kawa, in token of their reconciliation, and as a pledge of their loyalty and attachment to Her Majesty the Queen:

I have the honor, by direction of His Excellency the Governor, to request that you will be good enough to obtain the necessary conveyance of the land in question to the Crown (should no objection to your doing so occur to you); first, however, ascertaining all particulars relative to the position, extent, &c., of the land, and reporting thereupon for the information of the Government.

Should you, however, see any objection to the acceptance by the Government of the land offered as a gift, you will have the goodness to report your opinion for the information of His Excellency the Governor.