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

Translation

Translation.

1854. 26 July.

We have received

from Mr. McLean on this the 26th day of July in the year 1854 the

Hauraki.

sum of Fifty pounds (£50) being the first instalment for a portion of our land called

Receipt for £50, first instalment

Hauraki situated at Whangaroa. The boundaries are these,—it is bounded by the sea, and at Kerekerenga crosses over the isthmus to Waitetuna, which land we give up to

Boundaries

Victoria the Queen of England for ever.

(Signed) Potatau Wherowhero x
" Patara Tuhi

Witnesses—

John P. Russell, Settler, Wairarapa

Archd. A. McInnes, Clerk, N.L.P. Dept

True Translation

Donald McLean,
Chief Commissioner

March 18, 1856

A True Copy of Original-Receipt and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton

Wellington September. 25th 1874.