Te Wairoa June 14th. 1865. My dear Sir, I had anticipated the pleasure ere this of handing you personally the enclosed letter from Mr. Locke, but the weather and other circumstances have continued to retard my visit to Napier and as I perceive the Council is in Sitting, I think it advisable to transmit the letter per post. You will perceive by Mr. Lockes writing that the Plan of the Township as laid out by Mr. Fizgerald is utterly destructive of all the Properties on the river excepting Attwards new house and Waretons. The line of Road as it affects us is upwards of two chains wide, and sweeps away our entire garden, with upwards of a hundred full grown fruit trees, our dwelling house and offices, and cuts our new boarding house exactly in half; although thrown back full half a chain behind our dwelling house in short the destruction would be so complete that we really can perceive no good out of the difficulty but the granting us a fair lease of the Premises as we held them from our farmer Maori landlard.