No. 12.
The Chief Protector to the Hon. the Colonial Secrerary.

The Natives about Auckland are receiving deposits upon their lands with the expectation that His Excellency the Governor will ultimately sanction the sale of them. I have the honour to request that you will at your earliest convenience lay the subject of reserving to the Natives a tract of their own land under His Excellency's consideration, making such tract inalienable either to the Crown or to private individuals. The tract of country I would recommend to be immediately reserved in the belt of land belonging to the Ngatiwhatua Tribe lying between Tamaki and Auckland, having a frontage to Waitemata north, and also to Manukau south.