that there is no right of road through Sections 145 and 146 to this Native reserve. On behalf of Mr.Davy, I am prepared to make the Natives any compensation you may think them entitled to for effecting an Exchange. Should you not succeed in negotiating an exchange, perhaps you may devise some means of protecting Mr.Davy from the system of extortion hitherto practised by William Mototeri, and of delaying the occupation of the land of the Natives. Provided the Natives refuse to accept the land suggested or any other in lieu of the reserve, Mr.Davy will of course be entitled to receive Land in