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

[Deeds Receipts—No. 127.]

Deeds Receipts—No. 127.

Kotuku Block, Whaingaroa District.

Kua riro

mai ki a matou i tenei ra i te wha (4) o nga ra o Akuhata i te tau o to tatou

1854. 4 August.

Whaingaroa District

Ariki 1854 nga pauna moni kotahi rau (£100) takitahi. Ko te utunga timatanga tenei mo to matou whenua ki te Kotuku ki Whangaroa. Ka timata te rohe ki Puketutu

Kotuku.

ka haere ki te Kotuku ka rere ki Waipapa ka haere Taumatakoi ka rere te Iringawakarewa

Receipt for £100, first instalment

ka rere ki Putakaka ka mutu mai i reira: ka rere mai ki Kahuhuru ka rere mai ki Hokomeri ka rere ki te Huatapu ka rere ki te Kirikiri marere noa ki tatahi ka haere

Boundaries

mai Tawatahi tutaki noa ki Puketutu.

Ko tenei whenua katoa ka oti nei i a matou te hoko ki a Wikitoria te Kuini o Ingarini ake tonu atu me ona awa me ona rakau me ona aha noa iho o taua whenua ka riro nei i tenei ra e witi nei a ake tonu atu.

Taukawe x
Renata te Wharepuhi
John Hobbs

Nga Kai Titiro—

John P. Russell, Settler, Wairarapa

Translation.

We have received

on this fourth (4th) day of August in the year of our Lord 1854

1854. 4 August.

the sum of one hundred pounds (£100) once told this being the first instalment for our

Kotuku.

land named Te Kotuku at Whaingaroa. The boundary commences at Puketutu thence

£100, first instalment.

to Te Kotuku thence to Waipapa, Taumatakoi, Te Iringawhakarewa and on to Putakaka where the boundary terminates in that direction: thence returning to Kahuhuru, Hokomeri, te Huatapu to te Kirikiri and down to the beach along which it proceeds to Puketutu.

We have for ever transferred all this land to Victoria the Queen of England with its streams trees and whatsoever thereunto appertains under the shining sun of this day.

Taukawe x
Renata Te Wharepuhi
John Hobbs

Witness—

John P. Russell, Settler, Wairarapa

True Translation

John Grant Johnson
Acting Chief Commissioner

Auckland July 7/56.

A True Copy of Original-Receipt and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton

Wellington September. 16th 1874.