No. 17.
The Chief Commissionee to Mr. Commissioner Johnson.

I have the honor to acquaint you that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to approve of the purchases recommended by you to be made on the North and South-West sides of the Whangarei Harbour; and that the sum of Nine hundred pounds sterling, being the total amount required in your reports, has been placed under the charge of a police constable, to be transmitted by the steamer "Wongawonga," and to be delivered into your hands immediately upon her arrival at Whangarei.

You will have the goodness to advise me of its receipt as soon as possible, taking care that receipts are exchanged when delivered to you. In addition I have to express my entire concurrence in the measures you have adopted for securing blocks of land of the extent and position' described in your letters of the 26th March and 12th April, 1855.