 And in December, a week after arriving at Hokianga to inspect the land bought from the 1825 New Zealand Company, Wakefield was told by Ngāpuhi chiefs that the only land the New Zealand Land Company could claim in the north was about a square mile at Hokianga.Further, there was nothing at all for them at either Kaipara or Manukau Harbour.There was a prize for him, however, with his purchase on 13 December of the Wairau Valley in the north of the South Island.