Report of Land Claims Commissioner.
In the Court of Claims.

On the 22nd October, 1844, Governor Fitzroy issued grants to George Frederick Russell in the following claims: 204, for 400 acres; 204a, 300 acres; 204b, 50 acres. These grants were duly called in for examination by the Attorney-General, and on examination were ordered to be cancelled.

On the 14th June, 1861, personally appeared before me John Webster, of Hokianga, and produced probate of the will of George Frederick Russell, with letters of administration annexed, granted to John Webster and John Logan Campbell under the seal of the Supreme Court of the 3rd of October, 1855. By such will the testator devised and bequeathed all his real and personal estate to John Webster and John Logan Campbell, in trust, to carry out certain trusts, and directed that they should have full power to act in the management and disposal of his property as should seem most advantageous to them for the benefit of his children.

The land comprised in Claims 204 and 204a has been surveyed together, and the total contents found to be 117 acres. In the Claim 203b (at Kohukohu, the residence of John Webster, who married one of G. F. Russell's daughters, and formerly the residence of Russell himself), the survey shows the contents to be 53 acres.

It is accordingly hereby directed that grants be issued to John Webster, of Hokianga, and John Logan Campbell, of Auckland, for (117) one hundred and seventeen acres at Hutoia, and for (53) fifty-three acres at Kohukohu, at the Hokianga River.