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Excellency's Government of the amounts received by them upon the sale of the
allotments granted to them respectively in anticipation of the submersion of the
allotments for which they now respectively claim.

3. We make no recommendation for relief to such of the claimants as are
   included in subdivision 4 of each of said classes.

We have bestowed much anxious consideration upon the claims for compensa-
tion of the sections mentioned in Schedules C and D, taken or proposed to be taken
for railway and other purposes, and have the honor to recommend as follows:—

1. That those included in subdivisions 1 and 2 of classes C and D should be
   permitted to receive from the Crown an allotment upon the said reserve, and to
   remove thereto, prior to the first day of June next, the buildings erected upon
   the several allotments so required for railway and other purposes, and upon the
   re-erection of such buildings they shall be respectively entitled to the sums set
   against their respective names in our estimate "of the expense of the removal"
   thereof, and to receive a lease of their selection for the term, at the rate, and
   according to the conditions already mentioned.

2. That those included in subdivision 3 of each class should be allowed to
   receive from the Crown an allotment upon the said reserve, and upon the erection,
   prior to the first day of July next, of a building to the value of £50, to receive
   a lease of the same from the date, for the term, at the rate, and upon the condi-
   tions hereinbefore mentioned.

3. That the claims of subdivision 4 of each of such classes we advise should be
   expunged.

We further recommend that the claimants under subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 of
Schedules C and D be permitted to choose their allotments from the unoccupied
ground in the reserve, at the Court House at Westport, on the first day
of April next, at noon, according to the order shown in the exhibit marked
"Order of Choice of New Sections."

We beg to call your Excellency's attention to the evidence upon the special
topics descanted upon by us in this Report, supplied by—

Mr. Andrews, Manager, Bank of New
Zealand;
Mr. Cooper, Topographical Surveyor;
Mr. Denniston, Coal Viewer;
Mr. Dobson, Engineer, Public Works;
Mr. Field, Merchant;
Mr. Graves, Linendraper;
Mr. Hughes, Publican;
Mr. Humphrey, Merchant;
Mr. Jones, Manager, Bank New South
Wales;
Mr. Leech, Harbour Master;
Mr. Munson, Stationer;
Mr. Munro, Auctioneer;
Mr. Powell, Merchant;
Mr. Riley, Mariner;
Mr. Sheehan, Publican;

and also to the valuable testimony furnished by Mr. Warden Giles upon the first
point submitted to us by your Excellency.

Appended hereto is an Index of Contents, together with a Schedule of the
papers and documents relied upon at the hearing of the claims.

The profession more than once referred in flattering terms to the great ability
evinced by Mr. Mackay, the representative of the Crown, at the inquiry now being
brought to a close.

That great research and learning were displayed by that gentleman in the
compilation of the report handed to the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, and
in the conduct of the investigation, must have been apparent to those who have
read the one and who have witnessed the other; and we are free to admit that the
Commission—lengthy and tedious at the best—must without his aid have been
more protracted, and probably less satisfactory in its results.

Given under our hands and sealed with our seals at Westport, this
eleventh day of January, A.D. 1876.

Approved.
NORMANBY.

THOS. S. WESTON. (L.S.)
RICHMOND BEETHAM. (L.S.)