[Excerpt] CROWN GRANT 12235 ~ Victoria by the Grace ,of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith and so forth. To all to whom those presents shall come greeting Whereas a school hath been established by the government at Taurarua in the Suburbs of Auckland under the Superintendence of the Bishop of New Zealand for the education of children of our subjects of both races and of children of other poor and destitute persons being inhabitants of the Islands in the Pacific Ocean and whereas it would promote the objects of the said Institution to set apart certain pieces or parcels of land in the immediate neighbourhood thereof for the use and towards the support and maintenance of the same..... Download the full document here