over to Moananui’.⁸ Clarke omitted to tell the Committee that earlier in the year the owner of Lot 12, Gill, had conveyed Lot 12 to trustees Kissling and G. H. Davies, of Wellington.⁹ The beneficiaries of the trust were Gill’s daughter, Emily, and Gill’s colleague, H. T. Clarke, to whom Miss Gill was, at that date, engaged to be married.

The tables below clearly show both the collective ownership of the reserves and the transfer of 50 acres from the land allocated to Hohepa Te Kai, to Te Moananui and others. The area of Hohepa Te Kai’s reserve diminished by 50 acres and Lot 12 increased by the same amount between June 1866 when Mackay produced his first list of reserves and November 1866, when a subsequent list was attached to the Ngai Te Rangi deed. Mackay’s June 1866 list recorded these allocations of land at Rereatukahia in the Parish of Tahawai:¹⁰

The ‘Ngaiterangi’ deed, signed on 3 November 1866, included the following reserves and names. The reserves’ final position and name is listed beside each award.

⁸ Le 1 1878/6, NA, pp. 5-6. See RDB 1, vol. 1, pp. 315-6.

⁹ Deed register K2 177, ref. 2042^K, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), Auckland.

¹⁰ DOSLI files, box 1, folder 5, cited in Stokes, The Allocation of Reserves, vol. 1, p.103.