No. 38.
The Chief Commissioner to Mr. Commissioner Johnson.

With reference to your report of the 25th March last, notifying that the survey of certain blocks in your district has been completed, and that it now rests with the Government to decide what price should be paid to the Natives for each of these blocks.

I have the honor to inform you that, assuming the quantities stated by you to be exclusive of Native reserves, and of land agreed to be resold to the Natives, you are authorized to complete the purchases at prices not exceeding the sums named by yourself, viz.—

Kaurihohore	£550
Parahaki	£200
Whareora	£250
	£1000

To enable you to carry out these instructions, the sum of One thousand pounds has been forwarded to the Sub-Treasurer at Whangarei, subject to your requisition from time to time, to whom you should account at your earliest convenience for the expenditure of the sums advanced by him to you, and furnish him with a copy and translation of the Deed of Sale in each instance, in support of your accounts.

Should any unforeseen delay arise subsequently to your receiving the purchase money, you will be good enough again to deposit it with the Sub-Treasurer, in whose custody it should remain until required by you for immediate payment.

You should take an early opportunity of notifying to the Natives the decision of the Government as to the price to be paid to them for the above blocks, and to inform them that the money is ready for their acceptance for each of the blocks when they are prepared to execute a Deed of Conveyance to Her Majesty in the usual form.