Enclosure
District. | Date of Purchase | Extent in Acres. | Description of Land. | Date of Payment. | Sums Paid. | Date of Payment to be made. | Sums payable. | Total of each Purchase. | Tribe from whom purchased. | Commissioner negotiating | ||||||
Whangarei | £. | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||||||
Pakiri Block. | 1857. March 12 | Surveyed area 38,000 | Agricultural and timber land, contains two small harbours, and two navigable rivers; fine Kauri timber. | March 12 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 800 | 0 | 0 | 1070 | 0 | 0 | Kawerau and Uri o Hau | Messers. McLean and Johnson | |
Kaurihohore Block. | June 8 | 4,790 | Excellent agricultural land, immediately adjoining the Settlement at Whangarei; accessible by good roads; partly forest, level, and well watered land of volcanic nature. | June 8 | 550 | 0 | 0 | 550 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | ||||
Parahaki Block. | June 8 | 4,481 | General character poor and hilly, situation good, adjoining the Settlement at Whangarei, and frontage to navigable river; possesses good Kauri timber. | June 8 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | ||||
Whareora Block. | June 23 | 4,939 | Land of very fair quality and suitable for agricultural or pastoral purposes; most accessible from Ngunguru river. | June 23 | 250 | 0 | 0 | 250 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | ||||
Tamaterau Block. | October 2 | 3,820 | Agricultural land of very excellent quality, having frontage to Whangarei harbour; back range covered with valuable timber; land well watered. | October 2 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | ||||
*Awaroa Block Kaiwa Block. | October 2 | 1,053 | Agricultural and timber land. | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | |||||||||||
A Peninsula, surrounded with deep water, running out into the harbour of Whangaref; excellent soil, and valuable timber. | November 6 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | Messrs. Mclean and Johnson | |||||||
Mata Block. | 1858. February 2 | 11,108 | Agricultural and pastoral; the greater portion of this block is hilly; has water frontage to a navigable branch of Whangarei harbour; is well timbered and watered; limestone formation. | 1858 February 2 | 600 | 0 | 0 | 600 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | ||||
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Parua Block. | 10,000 | Poor and hilly on side next Whangarei; fine timber and good land on the pataua river. | not yet determined probably March 1858 | 500 | 0 | 0 | 500 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnsonpage 84 | |||||
Whangarei | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||||||
Mahe | Surveyed area 1,646 | Agricultural land; frontage to Whangarei harbour; limestone formation. | 1858. February 23 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | |||||
Whauwhau | 1,351 | Agricultural and timber land;. adjoining Sir Osborne Gibbes' property. | February 23 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | |||||
Kamo | 296 | Agricultural; richest volcanio soil adjoining Settlement. | February 23 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | |||||
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†Whananaki Block | 2,560 | Agricultural and timber land, situated on the North bank of the Whahanaki river; navigable for small craft and boats. | Probably April, 1858 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | |||||
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Wairua Block. | 20,000 | Poor, hilly, and swampy; may be available at a future period when the great Wairua swamp is drained; suitable for rough cattle runs. | Probably May, 1858 | 500 | 0 | 0 at 6d. per acre | 500 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | |||||
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Nga Mako Block. | 15,000 | Average quality, partly swamp; suitable for cattle runs. | Probably June, 1858 | 375 | 0 | 0 at 6d. per acre | 375 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | |||||
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Huanui Block. | 4,000 | Excellent agricultural land, well timbered and watered; accessible by good roads from the Settlement at Whangarei; on volcanic plain. | uncertain; negotitations suspended during native disputes. | 400 | 0 | 0 | 400 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson | |||||
‡Tutu Kaka | 10,000, | Heavily timbered and hilly; possesses harbour of Tutukaka for ships, and Matapouri for boats. | probably April, 1858 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 0 | Ngapuhi | District Commissioner Johnson |
* The Awaroa purchase, originally made from the Natives by Messrs. Gorrie and Greenhill, was exchanged for Scrip with the Crown; it was surveyed, and re-assumed by the Government without further payment.
† The Whananaki Block was originally purchased by the late Captain Salmon, of the Bay of Islands, from the Chief Waikato; but, as its sale was always opposed by the Kawakawa natives, so that possession could not be obtained of it, the Crown granted other land to the representatives of the late Captain Salmon, in exchange for the said claim, on Captain Salmon's representatives undertaking to satisfy the rest of the claimants. They have consented to give up their claim for £100, which was to be made after a survey of the land is made.
‡ The Tutukaka case has been referred to Mr. Commissioner Bell. It is also an Old Land Claim exchanged for Scrip, the £50 to be paid contingent on Mr Bell's approval, at the approaching investigationon the spot, to satisfy claimants—Vide Messrs. Godfrey and Richmond's Original Report on the case. John grant johnson,