New Plymouth, August 9th, 1847. Sir In accordance with your request I beg to furnish you with the following statement and general detail of the differen surveys, made by me at this settlement, in surveying the boundaries of the block of land for which you are in treaty with the Ngamotu tribe and in forming reserves for them - Having been instructed to lay out a block of land as a reserve for natives at Moturoa I found it necessary before I could do so, to recut several of the old lines formerly made there finding those in the fern ground to be completely grown over, and in the forest although easily seen quite impassable from the thick undergrowth which had sprung up since they had been cut (a period of 5 years) I had however, less difficulty in finding the original lines from having been previously employed in the survey of this part of the settlement by the New Zealand Company. After some difficulty owing to the Natives being desirous of having included in their reserve a Pah and large cultivation near the beach situated on some land claimed for the Estate of the late