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

[Deed Receipts—No. 39.]

Deed Receipts—No. 39.

Rangatawhao Block, etc., Province of Hawke's Bay.

1859. 24 August. Hawke's Bay.

Kua riro

mai ki au i tenei ra i te 24 o nga ra o Akuhata i te tau o to tatou Ariki 1859 nga pauna moni e wha tekau hei utu mo aku wahi katoa ki Ahuriri ara ki te

Rangatawhao.

Rangatawhao ki Mohaka ki Kaiarero otira ki nga wahi katoa e pa ai au ki nga

Receipt for £40.

whenua o Ngatiterautangata o Ngaitamawahine ko te otinga mai o enei moni ki au i tenei ra ka oti tonu aku korero mo runga i enei nga whenua e hokona ana ki a Wikitoria te Kuini o Ingarangi ake tonu atu.

Wiremu Potangaroa x.

Nga Kai-titiro—

Hori Mare.

H. Fitzgerald, Provincial Surveyor, Hawke'a Bay, Napier.

Translation.

1859. 24 August.

Received

on this 24th day of August a.d. 1859 the sum of Forty pounds in payment

Rangatawhao.

for all my lands at Ahuriri i.e. at the Rangatawhao, at Mohaka, at Kaiarero, that is at

Receipt for £40.

all the places to which I have any claim in the lands of Ngatiterautangata and of Ngaitamawahine. On the payment to me of this amount this day I put an end to all I have to say about these lands which are sold to Victoria the Queen of England for ever and ever.

Wiremu Potangaroa x.

Witnesses—

Hori Mare.

H. Fitzgerald, Provincial Surveyor, Hawke's Bay, Napier.

True Translation.

G. S. Cooper.

A True Transcript of Office Copy of Original Receipt.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, February 28th, 1876.