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

Translation

Translation.

1854. 14 July.

We have received

from Mr. McLean this fourteenth day of July in the year 1854 the

Whaingaroa.

sum of Fifty Pounds (£50) once told as a payment for all our claims to land at

Receipt for £50

Whaingaroa which we now for ever give up and transfer to the Queen of England for ever with its timber and all thereunto appertaining. In testimony of our receipt of

Epiha's claims

these Fifty pounds and of our consent to the particulars of this deed we hereunto affix our names and marks.

Epiha Putini
Hetaraka
Wetere Kauae
Narama Karaka

Witnesses—

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

Sd. H. T. Kemp

A True Copy of Original-Receipt and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton

Wellington August. 3rd 1875.