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REPORT FROM TTIE COMMISSIONER

District. No. Date. Name of Reserve. Area. Grantee or Owner. Object, Trust, or Utilization. I Horokiwi Road... 13th October, 1847 Section 11, Horokiwi Road District a. r. p. j 102 2 16 i Petooni Natives, by deed from Col. McCle verty Bought for Waiwhau Natives by Sir George Grey Waiwhetu Natives, by deed from Col. McOleverty Petooni Natives, by deed from Col. McCleverty Pipitea Natives, [by deed from Col. McCleverty Lower Hutt 30th May, 1847 ... Section 19 106 0 0 Occupied by Native owners 25 Occupied by Natives Do. 2(i 30th August, 1847 Waiwhetu Pa site 3 2 27 do. do. Harbour 29 13th October, 1847 Wainui-o-mata block at lighthouse 5004 0 0 Cook Strait 30 Orongorongo, C. Turakirae ... 6990 0 0 ! Let as a sheep run by Natives, who receive the rent 1st Nov., 1847 ... do. do. do. do. 18153 0 23 The awards of Col. McCleverfcy were made in consequence of the local Natives persistently occupying, in addition to the reserved elevenths, certain lands, chiefly their pas and cultivations, that had been selected by settlers under the New Zealand Company's scheme of settlement. In answer to a Memo, of Mr. Commissioner Swainson's, of April 21st, 1865, stating that the Resident Magistrate at Wellington considered the titles derived from Col McCleverty's deeds questionable, if not invalid, Mr Attorney-General Sewell wrote -■" I understand that this land formed part of the tract included in the grant of the Port Nicholson District to the New Zealand Company. On the dissolution of the Company it reverted to the Crown. Col. McCleverty, as the authorized agent of the Crown, agreed with certain Natives to grant them the pieces of land in question. Under such agreement the natives have a good equitable title, which the law would, no doubt, enforce, and which the Crown is prepared to maintain." —See Mr. Swainson's Memo, to Hon. Native Minister, of 2lst April, 1865. ■ • Mr. Attorney-General Whit.tker was of opinion that Col. McCleverty's reserves must be considered, for all practical purposes, as Native territory, not subject to the provisions of Native Reserves Act, 1850. Note.- -The following awards of Col. McCleverty's have been sold by the Natives, viz.: —Wellington Town Acres Nos.'40, 42, 44, 46, 109, 111, 113, to John Martin ; No. 31, containing 456 acres, at Waiariki, C. Terawiti to D. McLean, for the Crown, and 50 acres of section 26, Ohiro to George Hunter, on 26th March, 1863. Schedule op Geneeal Native Besebves in the Peovince op Wellington. Class B. 2. District. No. Datk. Name of Reserve. Area. Grhntee oi; Owner. Trust, Object, or Utilization. City of Wellington I Town acres 972 to 989 a. r. p. 18 0 0 Crown ; Native reserve fund Let on lease to W. B. Mantell, for 21 years, from 1st January, 1865, first 7 years at £24, second £32, and third £36 a year Lately let on lease to Hemi Parae, at £1 6s. a year, on condition that horses of Native travellers should be grazed on it; lease expired, but occupation continued Do. do. 995 to 1005 11 0 0 do. do. do. 10

Schedvle — continued. Class B. 1.—Reserves for a Specified Purposes. —Col. McCleverty's Awards.