No. 28.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington, to H. Tacy Kemp, Esq.
Sir,—
Two applications having been made to Government respecting the lease or conveyance portions of the land on which Pipitea Pa is built, but the whole of which land is held in common by its Native owners, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief to request you to inform the latter that if they will divide the said land into individual properties, in such manner as may satisfy you that no future difficulties respecting the ownership of the several portions will arise, His Excellency will cause individual grants to be issued to them of their several properties, with power to lease the same, subject to the approval of the Government.
The two cases above alluded to are an intended lease of some of Parata's land to the Rev. Mr. Duncan, of this place, and the conveyance of another piece of land in the pa to Heberley's wife and children.