Memorandum by Mr. Commissioner Cooper.

The explanatory map of the reserves in the Waiwhakaiho purchase being at Taranaki, I can only give a detailed account of them from memory. As however I left in the Land Purchase Office a tracing map which contains full information upon the subject, a reference of this memorandum to either the Sub-Inspector of Police, Mr. Rogan, or Mr. Octavius Carrington, with the map in question, will suffice to rectify any error I may make.

Reserves for Hone Ropiha and Wi te Ahoaho.

In the original purchase it was agreed that Hone Ropiha and Wi te Ahoaho were each to have one hundred acres in the lower or seaward part of the block, and two hundred acres each, further inland, for themselves and relatives. Hone Ropiha was afterwards satisfied with a fifty-acre section at Purakau, in lieu of his hundred-acre reserve; his two hundred acres are marked out at Te Pukiekie. Wi te Ahoaho's hundred acres comprise the two sections at Waerengapoka, formerly occupied by Mr. Nairn; his two hundred acres are bounded by the Arahake and Waiwhakaiho Rivers, from the junction running inland. Wi te Ahoaho and Hone Ropiha have both expressed a desire to purchase one hundred acres of their respective inland reserves.

Ropiha Moturoa.

At the same time five hundred acres were promised to Te Ropiha Moturoa and his party, now in course of migration from this neighbourhood. This land has been marked on the map as bounded by the Araheke and Waiwhakaiho Rivers; by Te Ahoaho's inland boundary (not yet marked), and by a line running from a point on the Araheke Stream, the name of which I forget, to another in the Waiwhakaiho called Kaipi, and which forms a part of the Pikipari boundary-line cut by Mr. Octavius Carrington in 1852.

More.

A fifty-acre section was promised to More and his family in exchange for all their claims to a place called Whatitiri, and others in that neighbourhood.

Rawiri Motutere and Wi Kawaho.

Of the sections inland of Mr. Smart's boundary-line, the first is a twenty-five-acre piece given to Rawiri Motutere and Wiremu Kawaho, in exchange for a cultivation on Mr. Smart's farm, for which they had not been paid at the Fitzroy purchase.

Karoraina and Ani.

A small corner-piece, about three or four acres, was promised to Karoraina (widow of Te Hemera) and Ani in exchange for cultivations on Mr. St. Aubyn's section, in occupation of Mr. Chilman. Hoera Parepare will pay 10s. an acre for this piece; £1 is paid already.

Hopataia.

The next section was promised to Hopataia—forty acres, being a reserve for all his unsatisfied claims in the Fitzroy and Grey purchases, including Mr. St. Aubyn's section. He is to pay 10s. an acre for the excess over forty acres.

Matena Tupoki, Wi Tana Ngatata, and Wi Ropiha.

The next two sections are in the name of Matena Tupoki and Wiremu Tana Ngatata. A fifty acre section was originally promised to these two men and Wi Ropiha Motutere, as a reserve; but they afterwards asked to have three separate reserves of twenty acres each, each man wishing to purchase thirty acres, so that each might have a fifty-acre section. This was agreed to, and Matene and Wi Tana have to pay for thirty acres each, of which they have deposited the greater part of the price. Wi Ropiha afterwards paid the whole purchase-money for his section, which is marked off further inland.

Kirihipu, Herewini, Hohaia, and Poharama.

A section containing seventy acres, more or less, was reserved for Kirihipu, Te Herewini, and Ihaia, for relatives expected shortly to arrive from Nelson; and adjoining it is a fifty-acre section which Poharama wishes to purchase for the same purpose.

Wi Tako and Ropiha Moturoa.

The five-hundred-acre reserve to Wi Tako was promised when the payment for the Waiwhakaiho purchase was made at Wellington.

Hohua and Manahi.

A fifty-acre section at the junction of the Waiwhakaiho and Mangaorei Rivers, for Hohua and his people, and one hundred acres at Te Katoa for Manahi and his people, were promised when the block was purchased.

Henare te Puni and Hakopa.

Henare te Puni is to have a piece reserved on the side of Devon Road, and Hakopa te Rerewai te Rangi forty acres at Mangaorei, when the opposition of that party is withdrawn to the occupation of the Waiwhakaiho Block.

These, as far as my memory goes are all the reserves promised to Natives in the Waiwhakaiho Block.