No. 25.
The Surveyor-General to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary.

Referring to your letter dated the 16th May, 1850, requesting that the portion of land given at Otawhao by the Natives for a school should be granted in trust to his Lordship the Bishop, I would beg leave to suggest, for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, whether, under all the circumstances of the case, and taking into consideration the fact of the land being connected with that already acquired by the Church Missionary Society, it would not as fully meet the objects contemplated by the proposed grant if all the lands were thrown into one block and granted to the Society in the usual manner, thereby preventing any confusion of boundaries or interests, and enabling the whole to be enclosed and cultivated at a less expense to the institutions now in progress, and which the land is designed to support.