I.—3a

210

Findlay, Dalziell, Solicitors, Wellington. Te Kuiti. MoKAHU-Mohakatino meeting adjourned to tenth. Presume you will inform all parties. Bowler, President. Dalziell, Solicitor, Wellington. Te Kuiti. Cannot get into touch with Natives. Presume you will acquaint them. Bowler, President.

W. H. Grace, Kihikihi. Jones writes he could do nothing with Otaki Natives. Think well for you see Pepene again. I feel that he may have been won over by other side. Think inadvisable postpone meeting further. If majority not favourable think best course be withdraw our offer and apply Court determine position leases. Think certain our leases of all blocks but F good, and that if that is doubtful owing non-per-formance covenants Court will relieve from forfeiture and we can perform covenants for the future. Hosking, K.C., Dunedin, so advises. In this event, of course, we would not pay anything like twentyfive thousand to Natives. Please advise as to course you think best after seeing Pepene. Dalziell. 2/3/11.

Findlay, Dalziell, Solicitors, Wellington. Kihikihi. If Natives still obstructive before tenth your suggestion good. No use showing white feather. Withdrawal of offer will to their senses. Grace.

No. 50. Bowler, Herrman Lewis, and the Mokau Coal and Estates Company (Limited). This deed, made the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, between Walter Harry Bowler, of the City of Auckland, the President of the Maori Land Board of the Waikato-Mania-poto Maori Land District (hereinafter called " the trustee "), of the^firstj'part; Herrman Lewis, of the City of Wellington, settler, (hereinafter called " the said Lewis "), of the second part ;J and the Mokau Coal and Estates Company (Limited) (hereinafter called " the company "), of the third part : Whereas by four agreements all dated the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and expressed to be made between the Maori Land Board of the Waikato-Maniapoto Maori Land District (hereinafter called " the Board ") of the one part, and the said Lewis of the other part, the Board agreed to sell and the said Lewis agreed to purchase respectively the Mokau-Mohakatino Number One p (Iγ) Block, the Mokau-Mohakatino Number One G (1g) Block, the Mokau-Mohakatino Number One h (1h) Block, and the Mokau-Mohakatino Number One J (1j) Block, all in the Provincial District of Taranaki, in consideration of a cash payment of twenty-five thousand pounds (£25,000), and the transfer by the said Lewis to the Board of two hundred and fifty (250) fully-paid-up shares of ten pounds (£10) each in the capital of the company, and otherwise upon the other terms expressed in such agreements : And whereas the said Lewis hath since sold a portion of the lands comprised in the said agreements, and more particularly described in the First Schedule hereto, to the company in consideration of a cash payment by the company to the said Lewis of twenty-five thousand pounds (£25,000), and of the allotment by the company to the said Lewis of five hundred and thirty (530) fully-paid-up shares of ten pounds (£10) each in the capital, and otherwise upon the other terms affecting the same expressed in the said agreements ; and whereas, pursuant to the terms of the said agreements the Board has, by memorandum of transfer dated the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, on the direction of the said Lewis and the company, transferred the said lands to the trustee (as the trustee doth hereby acknowledge), in accordance with the terms and provisions of the said four agreements of the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven : Now this deed witnesseth as follows : — 1. The trustee hereby declares that he stands possessed of and entitled to that portion of the said lands described in the First Schedule hereto upon the trusts expressed in the said four agreements of the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, with this variation : that the company shall, as the assign of the said Lewis, be deemed to be " the purchaser " of such portion within the meaning of the said agreements, as fully and effectually as if it had been named therein instead of the said Lewis. 2. The trustee hereby declares that he stands possessed of and entitled to the residue of the said lands, being those portions thereof more particularly described in the Second Schedule hereto, upon the trusts in favour of the said Lewis as the purchaser expressed in the said agreement of the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, which affects such portions.