No. 1.
The Hon. the Colonial Secretary to Mr. Interpreter Johnson.

By command of His Excellency the Governor, I have the honor to request that you will immediately proceed to Whangarei to negotiate purchase of as extensive a block of land as possible, including a location fit for the Highlanders, recently arrived in the Colony, but you are not to complete the purchase until it has received the approval of the Surveyor-General, with respect to the price paid, the reserves made, and other particulars.

I beg leave to add, for your informatirn, that a clause will be inserted in the deed of purchase reserving for native purposes ten per cent of the future proceeds which may be realised from the sale of the land.