An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand
Thames and Piako Districts
Thames and Piako Districts.
Number of acres purchased, 6,000.
Amount of purchase money, £350.
No surveys executed, as the Commissioner was detached from this district in August, 1860.
page 177Province of Wellington. No purchases have been made since 1st July, 1860.
Twenty seven thousand and sixteen acres have been surveyed during the same period, an amount apparently small, but large when the number of district surveys (40 in number) is taken into consideration.
These surveys include lands purchased, lands under negotiation, lands reserved for Natives, and lands in the hands of the Natives.
Much time has been spent during the same period in determining and surveying the back boundaries of former purchases in the Wairarapa.
In the Province of Ahuriri no fresh purchases have been made, but a surveyor attached to the department has been employed in surveying the external boundaries of blocks under negotiation and reserves for the Natives.
Donald McLean.