Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume One

Te Karo No. 2 Block, Tairua, Coromandel District

Te Karo No. 2 Block, Tairua, Coromandel District.

Grant under The Natives Lands Acts.

Register Book, Vol. 3 Folio 268.

Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen:

To All to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

1874. 20 February.Coromandel District.

Know

Ye that, for good considerations Us thereunto moving, We, for Us, our Heirs and Successors, do hereby Grant unto Hohepa Paraone of the District of Hauraki in the Province of Auckland an Aboriginal Native of New Zealand his Heirs and Assigns, All that Parcel of Land in our Province of Auckland in our Colony of New Zealand,

Te karo no. II. Grant under Native Lands Acts to Hohepa Paraone.

containing by admeasurement One hundred (100) acres more or less situate at Tairua in the District of Hauraki Queen's County being called or known by the name of "Te Karo No. 2" and numbered Two thousand six hundred and eight (2608) Bounded

towards the East by the sea towards the South by Te Karo Block One hundred and ninety (190) links Two hundred and fifty eight (258) links Four hundred and twenty

Boundaries. [100 acres.]

four (424) links Two hundred and thirty nine (239) links Three hundred and thirty four (334) links Two hundred and ninety six (296) links Two hundred and seventeen (217) links One hundred and fifty six (156) links Two hundred and fifty four (254) links One hundred and seven (107) links Two hundred and two (202) links Two hundred and thirty seven (237) links One hundred and twenty one (121) links One hundred and sixty eight (168) links Four hundred and six (406) links Four hundred and eighteen (418) links and Four hundred and twenty six (426) links towards the West by the said Block Three hundred and twenty six (326) links Four hundred and eighty (480) links Four hundred and fifty six (456) links One hundred and forty five (145) links One hundred and twenty two (122) links Eight hundred and eighty seven (887) links Three hundred and forty four (344) links One hundred and forty nine (149) links and Two hundred and sixty three (263) links and towards the North West and North by Te Karo Block aforesaid Two hundred and fifteen (215) links Three hundred and seventy seven (377) links Two hundred and seventeen (217) links One hundred and sixty nine (169) links Two hundred and seventeen (217) links Three hundred and seventy six (376) links Four hundred and twenty five (425) links Three hundred and seven (307) links One hundred and eighty seven (187) links Four hundred and fifty (450) links Six hundred and seventy five (675) links One hundred and sixty five (165) links and One hundred and ninety (190) links Subject however to the right conferred on the Governor of New Zealand by the Native Lands Act 1865 of taking and laying off roads through the said land without compensation Provided that the total quantity of land to be taken therefor shall not be more than after the rate of Five acres for every One hundred acres and that the land taken for such roads be not occupied by any building garden orchard plantation or ornamental ground Such right to cease at the expiration of Ten years from the date hereof, As the same is delineated on the Plan drawn in the margin hereof, With all the Rights and Appurtenances thereto belonging; To hold unto the said Hohepa Paraone his Heirs and Assigns for ever as from the Twenty eighth day of November One thousand eight hundred and seventy two In Testimony whereof We have caused this our Grant to be sealed with the Seal of our Colony of New Zealand.

Witness our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir James Fergusson Baronet A Member of Our Most Honorable Privy Council; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand, at Wellington this Twentieth day of February in the Thirty seventh year of our Reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

James Fergusson G.
No. 17714. Reg. A. 90.

G. Maurice O'Rorke.

1874. 29 September.Transfer.

Transfer No. 383 from the within named Hohepa Paraone to Her Majesty Queen Victoria Produced and Entered the 29th day of Sept. 1874 at 2 p.m.

Geo B. Davy, D.L.R.

A True Copy of Original Certificate and Transfer.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, March 22nd, 1875.