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Reserves for Hone Ropiha and Wi te Ahoaho.

In the original purchase it was agreed that Hone Ropiha and Wi te Ahoaho were each to have one hundred acres in the lower or seaward part of the block, and two hundred acres each, further inland, for themselves and relatives. Hone Ropiha was afterwards satisfied with a fifty-acre section at Purakau, in lieu of his hundred-acre reserve; his two hundred acres are marked out at Te Pukiekie. Wi te Ahoaho's hundred acres comprise the two sections at Waerengapoka, formerly occupied by Mr. Nairn; his two hundred acres are bounded by the Arahake and Waiwhakaiho Rivers, from the junction running inland. Wi te Ahoaho and Hone Ropiha have both expressed a desire to purchase one hundred acres of their respective inland reserves.