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permit such natives as were willing to dispose of their individual rights in common land- 

 to do so. Early in 1859, Wiremu Kingi notified the Governor that no more land was 

 to be sold in the district extending from New Plymouth to Mokau, and asking him, 

 therefore, to pay no heed to any offer of land within those limits. Immediately after- 

 wards the Governor visited New Plymouth, and at a meeting with the natives he stated 

 that he never would con- 

 sent to buy land without 

 an undisputed title, but 

 that he would not permit 

 any one to interfere in 

 the sale of the land who 

 did not own part of it. 

 The natives misappre- 

 hended his meaning, and 

 understood that his inten- 

 tion was to start a new 

 policy by treating with 

 individual claimants, dis- 

 regarding the mana of 

 the chiefs, and setting 

 aside the tribal right. 

 Accordingly, a native 

 named Teira (Taylor) 

 got up and offered the 

 Governor his land at 

 Waitara for sale, and on 

 the offer being pressed, 

 Mr. McLean, the Native 

 Secretary, on behalf of 

 the Governor, replied that 

 he would buy provided a 

 good title could be made 

 out. Wiremu Kingi, head 

 chief of the Waitara, or 

 Ngatiawa tribe, and rep- 

 resenting some sixty claim- THE NIKAU PALM, 

 ants to the land, then 



rose and said: "Listen, Governor! Notwithstanding Teira's offer, I will not permit the sale 

 of Waitara to the Pakcka. Waitara is in my hands. I will not give it up Never, never, 

 never ! I have spoken." Whereupon he and his followers abruptly withdrew. After 

 nearly a year spent in investigating Teira's title, Mr. Parris, the District Land Purchaser, 

 reported that the same was good, and the sale was completed in due course. 



On the 2oth of February, 1860, surveyors were sent to mark the boundaries, and 

 by way of protest the natives directed some of their women to pull up the pegs and 



