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A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.

No. 16. — Copy of letter from the Crown Solicitor, to the Acting Resident Agent of the New Zealand Company

No. 16.
Copy of letter from the Crown Solicitor, to the Acting Resident Agent of the New Zealand Company.

Nelson, February 8th, 1849.

Sir,—

It being desirable to secure to the Natives at Motueka, the possession of Suburban Sections Nos. 181, 184, 190, 210, and 211, in the great wood at that place at present partly cultivated by them, it has been proposed by the Board of Management of Native Reserves that a negotiation should be entered into with the several proprietors of these sections for an exchange for other lands the property of the Trust Estate.

Messrs. Fell and Seymour, who are concerned for the owners of all these sections, excepting Section 181, which is unsold, have been applied to upon the subject of the exchanges referred to, and have expressed their willingness to do what the Board requires.

To enable the Board fully to carry out this arrangement, I am directed by His Honor the Superintendent to request you will be pleased to sanction the exchanges proposed, and for the purpose of completing the matter the Board will be prepared to place at the disposal of the New Zealand Company an early order of choice in lieu of that for which Section 181 was originally taken.

I have, &c.,

John Poynter,
Crown Solicitor.

The Acting Resident Agent of the New Zealand Company, &c., &c., &c., Nelson.