Classes of Reserves.

These are shown in the tabular returns already mentioned to consist of—(1) Town-acre reserves, New Zealand Company's country sections; (2) Colonel McCleverty's allocation reserves, taken from those general ones made by the New Zealand Company, and with additional country lands (unselected at that time by Europeans) given to Natives as compensation for surrounding various cultivations on selected lands; (3) Reserves brought under the Act by assent of Natives; (4) Reserves in Wairarapa and on the West Coast, made by or for, on purchase or sale of different blocks, but over which the Commissioners, past and present, have but little jurisdiction. Of this latter class no return is furnished.