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REPORTS EROM THE COMMISSIONER

Taranaki, compiled by Eobert Parris, Esq., Commissioner of Native Eeserves in that place, together with that officer's report of Beceipts and Expenditure to 31st December, 1869. I have the honor to recommend that these may be printed as an interim report. I have, &c, Charles Heaphy, The Hon. the Native Minister. Commissioner of Native Beserves.

Enclosure in No. 8. RESERVES made for FRIENDLY NATIVES in the CONFISCATED LANDS.

RESERVES made for RETURNING REBELS in the CONFISCATED LANDS.

BURIAL GROUND RESERVES.

COLONIAL HOSPITAL RESERVE.

No. oe Maek. ACEES. DlSTEICT. No. 54 „ 61 „ 76 „ 38 „ 52 ,,100 ,,101 ,,186 „ 38, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109,110, 122 ,,163,168,170,171,172 ,,179 „ 5 (part)... Koru No. 2 „ 41 „ 45 „ 54 „ 32 A. B. P. 156 0 0 42 0 0 340 0 0 51 0 0 35 0 0 87 0 0 75 0 0 204 0 0 503 0 0 235 0 0 52 0 0 6 10 3 0 0 127 0 0 51 0 0 50 0 0 53 0 0 3 3 35 Pulearuhe district Do. do. Tikorangi do. Do. do. Waitara West district Do. do. Do. do. Huirangi do. Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. Oakura do. Do. do. Okato do. Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. Opunake do.

No. oe Maek. Aceeage. DlSTEICT. Nos. 14,15, 19, 20 „ 10 „ 71 „ 72 Kaipakopako ... Nos. 6 and 7 ... „ 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 Wareroa Mokoia Taumaha No. 361 Waokena Eingahape Manawapou ... a. b. p. 200 0 0 25 0 0 12 0 0 22 3 25 578 0 0 100 0 0 285 0 0 10,500 0 0 6,000 0 0 2,800 0 0 127 0 0 400 0 0 60 0 0} 250 0 0) Urenui district Waitara East district Do. do. Do. do. Waitara West do. Patea do. Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. Do. do. Do. do.

No. oe Maek. DlSTEICT. Part of No. 20 Part of No. 1 Part of Nos. 24 and 29... Part of No. 5 Part of Cemetery Bell district Urenui district Waitara East district Oakura do. Opunake do.

DlSTEICT. Name of Reseeve. Aeea. Remakes. last Bide of Henui River Colonial Hospital Reserve a. e. r. 4 3 20 This land was bought in 1847, and a Colonial Hospital built on it with funds granted by the Imperial Government for Native purposes. The establishment from that time has been an asylum for the sick of both races up to 1367, when the Provincial Government, being desirous to have a hospital of their own, built one and the old Colonial Hospital was abandoned as such, arrangements having been made between the Colonial and Provincial Governments for the admission of Native patients into the Provincial Hospital, to save the expense of maintaing two establishments. I find it impossible to let the property to any advantage, and have only recently let it at the rate of £5 a-year to an adjoining occupier, for the use of the land 'and taking charge of the premises, but not to occupy the buildings.