No. 7.
Mr. Commissioner Johnson to the Chief Commissioner.

With reference to the 5th clause of your letter of instructions, dated the 18th of May, on the subject of native, reserves, I have the honor to inform you that I have purchased a tract of Fifteen hundred acres, having a frontage to a creek called the Takahiwae, in order that the land occupied by the natives at that place might be separated by that creek from the Government land.

Independently of these considerations, the water frontage to the creek affords a communication to the back country, without which it would not have been taken up by the settlers eventually.

The amount which I have paid is Seventy-five pounds (£75), and the Deed is enclosed herewith; and I have the honor to request that I may be relieved to that amount of the public moneys in my charge.