WHEREAS on the seventh day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, a Royal Commission was issued to Henry Tacy Clarke, Esquire, directing him to inquire into and report upon the claims of certain Natives to lands at Poverty Bay; and in his report, dated the third day of November in the same year, the said Henry Tacy Clarke recommended that Wi Pere be granted ninety-one acres of the land, such grant to include the land known as “The Orchard,” in the Schedule hereto first described, and containing eleven acres and one rood, and the remainder of such land to be made up out of the reserve known as the “Kohe Bush Reserve,” if the same should be available: And whereas the said remainder could not be granted out of the said Kohe Bush, the same having been reserved for public purposes:

And whereas by agreement made the twenty-ninth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, between the said Wi Pere and the Honourable George Frederick Richardson, Minister of Lands, it was agreed that the value of the remainder of the land recommended to be granted to the said Wi Pere, amounting to seventy-nine acres and three roods, should be valued, and the acreage of the lands to be granted in lieu thereof should be determined by arbitration, as in the said agreement mentioned:

And whereas the arbitrators under the said agreement have entered upon the matters thereby referred to them, and have awarded to the said Wi Pere the lands secondly described in the Schedule hereto:

And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the said recommendation as far as possible, and to the said award, and to vest the said lands described in the Schedule hereto in the said Wi Pere: