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eight acres (8,558), for which the sum of Four hundred and twenty-two pounds eighteen shillings (£422 18s.) was paid to the Chief Arama Karaka and others, on the 21st instant, A reserve of fifty acres (50) for Arama Karaka has been made at Kohangatoke, on Kaiwaka River, which is coloured yellow on the plan in the margin of the deed. The description of boundaries is also enclosed for proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette. I have, he, Donald McLean, Eiq., John Rogan, Chief Commissioner, District Commissioner. Auckland.

No. 15. MR. COMMISSIONER ROGAN TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER. Auckland, 16th October, 1859. Sir, — I have the honor to forward the following statement for His Excellency's information, in j reference to the purchase and negotiation of land in the district of Kaipara from February 1857, the t period at which negotiations were first entered into by me in that locality, to the present time, ' showing the quantity of land over which the Native title has been extinguished, the quantity of land surveyed, the purchase of which is not yet completed, the cost of survey, and the probable quantity of land no* under negotiation. Land, the Native Title to which is extinguished. Name of block. Area. Sums paid. Cost of Survey. £ s. d. £ s. d. Tatarariki . . . 12,000 350 0 01 Okahu . . . 16,000 / 3,000 600 0 OV 926 18 7 Ika-a-ranganui . . 8,128 500 0 0 ( Matakohe . ' . . 68,000 2,000 0 0 J Kaukapakapa . . 7,200 500 0 0 114 5 6 Paparoa . . . 15,021 500 14 0 222 510 Arapohue . . . 9,500 350 0 0 168 16 6 Kaukapakapa (West) . 5,223 300 0 0 142 14 0 PukeKaroro . . 8,458 422 18 0 103 19 10 152,530 5,520 0 0 1,679 0 3 Land Surveyed, the purchase of which is not yet completed. Name of block. Area. Cost of Survey. £ s. d. Oruawharo . . . 30,000 321 6 5 Okaka and Whiritoa . . 3,500) re is Waioneke . . . 5,000) db id 9 38,500 378 0 2 Land now under offer to the Government which has not yet been surveyed. Acres. Maire Tahi, situated South of Waioneke on the South Head of Kaipara, recently offered by Paora of Orakei . . 10,000 Mangawhara, situated inland of the Pakiri purchase, and extending to Kaipara ...... 100,000 Piroa, situated inland of Graham's purchase, and extending to Waipu 10,000 Mareretu . . . . - . . 200,000 320,000 The Oruawharo block was included in Return to House of Representatives 1858, as the price was agreed to by the Natives, but the claimants subsequently differed amongst themselves, and no arrangement has as yet been arrived at between them. Okaka and Waioneke have not been purchased, as they are small detached blocks, and it was considered inadvisable by the Government to complete the purchase until a Ifnger extent of land should be offered in that locality. The land offered by Paora is adjacent to Waioneke, and it wil

Gekeeal. Reporting as to the state of land purchasing operations in the Kaipara district,

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