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

No. 21. — Copy of letter from Board of Management of Native Reserves, to His Honor the Superintendent of Nelson

No. 21.
Copy of letter from Board of Management of Native Reserves, to His Honor the Superintendent of Nelson.

Nelson, August 16th, 1849.

Sir,

Arrangements having been completed for carrying out the exchanges contemplated at the time of your Honor's visit with the Board at Motueka, in February last, we now have the honour to report that we have agreed with the Acting Resident Agent of the New Zealand Company, and with the principal land agents here of absentee proprietors, subject to your Honor's approval, to the following exchanges:—

To receive Section No. 181, in the Wood at Motueka, for Native reserve No. 29, in the Swamp, Riwaka Plain; No. 210 in the same Wood for Native reserve No. 74, in the Riwaka Valley; No. 211 in the same Wood, for Native reserve No. 73, in the same Valley; Nos. 218 and 243 in the same Wood, for Native reserve Nos. 35 and 36 in the Riwaka Swamp, and No. 184 in Motueka Wood, on which a pah now stands for No. 20 reserve on the Riwaka Plain, edging on the Motueka River, this last section is nearly all swept away by flood.

The Acting Resident Agent having applied to the Board for the exchange of one of the Company's sections for No. 1, Native reserve at Motueka, to enable him to obtain a frontage to land already agreed to be given to a purchaser from the Company, the Board has had the matter under its consideration.

There, being on the lower portion of the Native reserve, remains of recent cultivations which the Natives have at present abandoned, owing to the flooding of the river, we think it would be impolitic to make any exchange of the entire section, but to enable the Agent to to carry out an arrangement with his purchaser for the occupation of the land adjoining the reserve, we beg to recommend that a right of way be granted through the reserve with a lease for a term of 40 years at a nominal rent, of about five acres, on the upper part of the reserve on which no cultivation has ever been formed.

This recommendation we make in consequence of the reserve No. 20 exchanged for No. 184, being so inferior in value to the one taken by the Trust, and on which the pah stands. Section No. 184 is in every respect valuable, being a complete block of 50 acres, whilst No. 20, in its present state, does not contain an area of more than six or seven acres, the remainder being washed away.

We have, &c.,

John Poynter,
Registrar of Deeds;
John Tinline,
Sheriff.

His Honor the Superintendent, &c., &c., &c.