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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 9, 30 April 1858, Page 5

to be Commissioners of Native Reserves in i the Province of Wellingiotf, under the " New Zealand Native Reserves Act, 1856." ! W. J. W. Hamilton, Esq., C. G. Bowen, Esq., T. Cass, Esq., to be Commissioners of Native Reserves in the Province of Canterbury, under the "New Zealand Natives Reserves Act, 1856." C W. Richmond. Maungatantari, December 27,4 857 Fbiend Brown, — Salutations to you. This is our word to you; this letter contains the amount and description of food used at Christmas. 4 tons of Ist Floor, ) Jf A _ 2 Sugar* | price £B6 lis Od. 2 chests Tea, £2 455. Od. 2 boxes of Candles, £2 19a. Td. 706 lbs. pork cooked in casks. There was 1968 lbs. of food baked in four days and four nights. Fresh eels, 180 lbs. Dried do., 2100 lbs. Small fish 16 baskets full. Peaches and other things grown by ourThe number of persons who partook of this food amounted to 640, and the iribes who composed this 640 were these; Ngatihinetu, Ngatiapakura, Ngatiraukawa, Ngatiiuwareloa, Ngatiwbakaue, Ngatiwairangi, Ngatipou, Ngatirangi, Ngatibaua, Ngalikoura, Ngatimahuta, Ngatitipa, Te Werokoko, Ngatirururu, Ngaiimaniapoto, Ngatitakibiku, and Tuhouraogi. Friend, these are the tribes who came to spend Christmas at Maungatautari; and the | tribes, who prepared the food for the tribes! named in this letter, were, Ngatikoroki, I Ngatihua, Ngatikahukura, Ngatimeroa and TeNerunga. Enough | From Tioriori, I " iraia, I " Hetaraka, 4t Ibaia, " Uakopa, " Hapi, " Himiona. ttohi. The Yen. Brows.