To avoid future disputes I applied for survey assistance to define the boundaries between Crown and Native Land and to mark off reserves. One surveyor was at first att ached to me for this purpose, but instead of being permitted to carry on a duty of such primary importance he was called away by the Govt. sometimes to lay off the site of a township at other times to subdivide land for selection and sale to Europeans, hence the occasional disputes which have arisen out of unintentional encroachments upon Native property at Wairarapa. With the exception of a few unimportant cases of dispute arising in a great measure from an undue haste in disposing of the waste lands of the Crown without reference to Native interests the natives generally recognise the binding nature of the obligations entered into by them in ceding their land and fully admit the fairness not only of the prices paid but of the general arrangements concluded with them. Any attempt to impugn these arrangements or