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

[Deeds Receipts—No. 126.]

Deeds Receipts—No. 126.

Hauraki Block, Whaingaroa District.

1854. 26 July

Kua riro

mai ki a matou na te Makarini i tenei ra i te rua tekau ma ono o nga ra o

Whaingaroa District

Hurai i te tau 1854 nga pauna moni e rima tekau takitahi (£50) ko te utunga tuatahi

Hauraki.

tenei mo to matou kainga mo Hauraki ki Whangaroa taua whenua. Ko ana rohe koia enei, ko te moana tonu kei te Kerekerenga te tapahanga ki tua ki Wai-te-tuna heoi ano.

Receipt for £50, first instalment

Ko tenei whenua ka tukua e matou ki a Wikitoria te Kuini o Ingarini ake tonu atu.

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Potatau Wherowhero X
Patara Tuhi

Kai Titiro—

John P. Russell, Settler, Wairarapa

Archd. A. McInnes, Clerk, Native Land P. Dept

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

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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.