Wharekaka and Puhangina.

On this purchase the accumulation of 5-per-cents amounted to £566 12s. 3d., and advances to £255, leaving a balance of £311 12s. 3d. The committee, unable to question anything on the credit (Government) side of the account, attacked the debtor side, and employed a surveyor to check the areas stated to have been sold, and on which the calculations were based, with the area known to be sold on the ground. This occupied three days, and. at the termination of that time we were informed that "the difference found was too slight to be of any account." The money was then taken, and receipts signed in Maori and English, a marginal plan being drawn on each-receipt, to prevent the possibility of any future misapprehension as to locality.