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A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.
Office of the Commissioner for investigating and determining Titles and Claims to Land in New Zealand, Auckland, 31st March, 1845
Office of the Commissioner for investigating and determining Titles and Claims to Land in New Zealand,
Auckland,
31st March, 1845.
Sir,—
No. 1, 374a, 25th Oct., 1839; No.2, 374b 8th Nov., 1839. I have the honor to lay before your Excellency the result of my investigation into the New Zealand Company's claim to land comprised in cases No. 374a and 374b, and founded upon two deeds herewith enclosed, and dated respectively as per margin.
As the Company's Principal Agent has preferred claims under these deeds to three separate tracts of land in different parts of the Northern and Middle Islands, I propose, for the sake of perspicuity, to divide this report into three parts, by which I shall be enabled to deal separately with the claims to the several districts of Nelson, Porirua, and Manawatu; and the general preliminary observations in the first part must be considered as applicable, with certain modifications, to the remaining divisions:—