No. 24.
The Chief Commissioner to Mr Commissioner Kemp.

With reference, to your letter of the 8th ultimo, relative to Maihi Paraone Kawiti's offer of a piece of land to the Government, I have the honor, by direction of the Governor, to inform you that His Excellency fully concurs in the opinion expressed by you as to the inadvisability of accepting the land in question as a gift, and also in your suggestion that it should be purchased in connection with a larger block of land.

You are therefore authorised to inform Maihi Paraone, if you see fit to do so, that while His Excellency fully appreciates Maihi's friendship, and the motives which have induced him to offer the land, he cannot accept it as a gift from him, or from any other person.