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SCHEDULE D. CLASS C I.—(Grants with Limitations) of Reserves in the Province of Southland.

SCHEDULE E. CLASS C. 2. —Land which it is desirable should be made inalienable.

No. 13. Major Heaphy, V.C, Commissioner of Native Eeserves, to the Hon. the Native Minister. Sir,— Wellington, 11th July, 1870. I have the honor to forward herewith a report on the Native Eeserves in the County of Westland, with schedules and maps, I have, &c , The Hon. the Native Minister, Charles Heaphy, Wellington. Commissioner Native Eeserves.

Enclosure in No. 13. Eeport on the Native Eeseryes in the County op Westland. The Native Eeserves in the County of Westland are lands that were specially excepted from the cession of territory made by the Natives in iB6O, when the great bulk of land on the West Coast was acquired by the Crown. These Eeserves comprise 5930 acres, of which about 3536 acres have been made inalienable, by the Natives having coded them to the Governor, in trust, under the provisions of the Native Eeserves Act, 1856. Schedules B and C give the particulars of these Beserves. Mr. Greenwood, who collects the rents of the Native Eeserves at Greymouth, gives the following statement of the Native population of the country, from which it will be seen that the proportionate area of land to each Native is about 81 j acres.

DlSTEICT. No. Date of Ceetipcate. Date op Grant. Name of Reserve. Aeea. Remarks. Natuee op Teust, Limitation, &o. a. r. p. 1686 0 0 ew River May 26,1868 Omaui Reserved by Mr. Mantell in 1853, in terms of the Murihiku purchase Certificate of Title ordered by the Court 26th May, 1868, in favor of Teoni Topi Patuki and four others, in trust for themselves and others named in the list produced to the Court; land to be inalienable for ever, except by settlement for the benefit of the grantees or their successors to be appointed under the Native Lands Act, 1865

DlSTEICT. No. Name op Reseeve. Abea. Remaeks. .llotments No. 42 and part of 43, Block 7, Jacob's River Hundred, and Oraka Beach [okonui District ... Compensation Land to Topi.. A. R. P. 221 3 24 178 0 16 Compensation Land to Chief Topi in lieu of land taken for site of Campbelltown, at Bluff Harbour, 400 acres in all Bought with £2000 of Stewart's Island purchase money, as an endowment for Education and other Native purposes Education Reserve, Lot 225, Hokonui, and 13 Waimumu 2000 0 0

Locality. Men. Women. Children. Total. Bruce Bay ... Karangarua ... Okarita Woodstock ... Arahura Grrey 6 1 5 1 7 2 18 4 9 3 11 6 2 6 4 3 7 19 8 24 Totals 30 20 23 73