[Extract from New Zealand Gazette]

Whereas the District of Ngatiruanui Coast was brought under the New Zealand Settlements Act and taken for settlement, subject to certain promises set forth in the order of confiscation, it is now notified for public information, and in order to show that the promise of the Government is not forgotten, that His Excellency has reserved the following lands within the district for surrendered insurgents, that is to say, the land comprised in Schedule A hereto for the benefit, use, or occupation of the people of the Tangahoe hapu of the Ngatiruanui Tribe, and the lands comprised in Schedule B hereto for the benefit, use, or occupation of the Pakakohi hapu of the same tribe, these hapus having lately returned to their allegiance; provided that the lands comprised in the said schedules are subject to more exact definition as to their boundaries, and as to the purposes for which, and the persons of either of the hapus respectively for whom, the same shall be specially set apart. And as to the land comprised in Schedule C, it is notified that the same has been, in fulfilment of the same promise feet apart far the use of Hone Pihama, a chief of the Tangahoe hapu, to be hereafter granted to him absolutely in recognition of his valuable services during two years; and in addition to the lands in the schedules other reserves will be made and hereafter described, to contain burial-places of certain chiefs and others of the Tribe of Ngatiruanui, and to be granted to the chief Tito te Hanataua.