"The Chairman of the Gisborn Highway Board and others signing the petition enquiring into the conduct of the Government Agent for purchasing page 31 Native lands; also, of his Report on the actions of his Department on the East Coast. The Friends of our Cause here advise me not to present the same until after my Committee have Decided my Case now before them, as the Report will have a very damageing effect on my case, he haveing brought into his Report allmost every one in Gisborn as haveing done many things against the Government which would have a bad effect on our Case now Pending.