Mr. Richard Barrett as well as a section adjoining of Mr. Shaws, which you succeeded in arranging I was enabled to lay out a block of 200 acres abutting on the sea shore and another further inland of 250 acres. The first being chiefly fern land and the other forest, both a fair average of the land in that part, and with which I believe the natives especially those employed with me appear to be perfectly satisfied. I next commenced recutting an old line for the purpose of making a reserve for the natives of the Waiwakaiho but some difficulty occurring in the selection, you therefore instructed to be commence the survey of the large block intended to be purchased out of which those reserves were to have been made. I then commenced surveying the Waiwakaiho River at the point where the Companys survey had terminated and proceeded up that River to where the Mangore flows into it when I found the natives along with me assisting in the necessary cutting were unwilling to proceed further their right beyond that being disputed by the Puketapu tribe, on being induced to proceed - I soon found that the