MESSAGE No. 10.

Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives, 1854 Session I-II

MESSAGE No. 10.

Referring to a resolution of the House of Representatives, No. 10 of 21st of June, Session 1, requesting that the House might be furnished with "a Return of the amount of Land Scrip awarded by the New Zealand Company on the Government, as compensation to sufferers in respect of land, purchased from the Company, in their settlements of Wellington and Whanganui," ike.; and to Message No. 11, of the Ist of July, relating thereto, —His Excellency the Officer administering the Government forwards to the House, a copy of a letter which has been received from Mr. Commissioner Bell on this subject. R. H. Wynyakd. Government House, Auckland, sth September, 1854.

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Auckland, 3rd September, 1854. S "' _ I have the »iU. W™nlt * S KSrl—, I - «*-* .he Be t „ ra without reference to Wellington. _ But there is much of the Return which it is impossible for me to give, because the resident for the Return ) and pointed out to him that this information, which was in reality Te gist of what he wanted to get at, could not be given; adding my own opinion that the Landowners Committee would certainly neither consent, nor be justified in consenting at this time of day to reopen virtually the question of compensation, by accounting for each decision they came to. I furnished in my evidence before the New Zealand Company's Debt Committee last session a Return of the totals of compensation granted respectively to Absentees and at Wellington, but am not aware whether it was published. I will however procure it from the hon. Chairman of that Committee. I have, &c., ( Signed ) F. D. Bell, Commissioner. The Honorable The Colonial Secretary, &c.> &c., &c.