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No. 23.
Mr. Commissioner Kemp to the Chief
Commissioner.
Sir,—
| 2. | I have the pleasure to state that the whole of the arrangements, including
the payments made as well as those fixed, have been concluded in a satisfactory
manner. The plans of survey and other details of each block having been
previously completed, and submitted for the inspection of the native sellers.page 12 |
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The blocks which have been paid for stand thus, and are all of them connected by surveyed lines with former Government purchases, or with private lands, making, with but little interruption, one continuous and complete block:—
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In addition to the foregoing are the two following blocks, which also join Ahipara, containing 9,470 acres of the finest larid, for which the sum of £800 has, been fixed; and the Mangatete block, of 4,880 acres, recovered under the Land Claims Act, for which no remuneration is required by the natives, making the total to be—
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| 5. | By the next conveyance I hope to be able to forward the plans and descriptions of these blocks, the native title to which has now been extinguished. Mr White and myself are able, in the meantime, to report them as ready for survey and occupation without any delay whatever. |
I have, &c.,
H. T. Kemp, District Commissioner.
The Chief Commissioner, Land Purchase Department, Auckland.