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

Translation

Translation.

We Have Received

from Mr. McLean on this day on the twenty ninth day of November

1854. 29 November. Wairarapa District.

1854 One hundred Pounds in money (£100) in payment for our land at Ngapunawhawhakou, at the Purakau, at Kuripuni, which we give up to Victoria the Queen of England on this day as a firm possession for the Europeans for ever and ever. The boundaries of this land begin at Ngongototara and proceed in a southerly direction to

Donald's Staation.

te Punawhawhakou, thence to te Purakau, thence to Kuripuni, thence it takes

Receipt for £100.

easterly direction to Kuripuni at Donald's bridge, thence it goes on shore at Aotuhirangi thence

Boundaries.

to Rongongapu, thence to Te Koromiko a te whiwhi, thence to Rangapohatu, thence in the Kuripuni to Waihirere at the boundary formerly sold to the Queen.

The above piece of land we have entirely surrendered on this day to Victoria the Queen of England and the final settlement of the Price shall be arranged between ourselves and Mr. McLean when the surveys are completed, so that the quality of the land can be seen by the Europeans—then all the arrangements about this land shall be finally concluded.