Translation.
This deed
of sale of land written on this twenty third (23rd) day December in the1853. 23 December. Wairarapa District.
year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three (1853) is a document of the true consent of us the Chiefs and people of Ngatikahungunu whose names are hereunto attached for ourselves our relatives and all our descendants who may be bornOwhanga.(Featherston.)
after us to cede entirely a portion of our place to Victoria the Queen of England and to the Kings or Queens who may succeed her for ever.Receipt for £1,000.
Boundaries.
to Whakau thence towards the East to Tareha thence to Motukaira thence to Huruparera thence to Motuhinahina thence to Te Aramahutahuta thence to Te Haka thence to Te Takapau thence towards Te Wharaungahou thence to the South to Oteruaui thence to Te Huruatemanu thence to Te Arohata-a-Tumokonui thence to Tukurua thence to Taingaokuhu thence to the mouth of Mangatete thence to the mouth of Ruahine thence to Wairarapa thence to the North West to Owahanga where the boundaries join. Included in this arrangement all the land ceded by Te Waka Tahuahi and Te Manihera at Te Kuratawhiti.Reserve at Motupiri for Rawiri Piharau. [100 acrcs.]
Well, we have considered over the matter, we have greeted we have said goodbye to and have finally ceded this place of our ancestors' derived by us from them together with all its rivers its branches its lakes, its waters, its trees, its herbage its stones its plains and its good places and its bad places and all things whether on the surface of the soil or underneath it together with everything appertaining to that land—we have finally ceded it under the shining sun of this day to be a permanent possession from us for Victoria the Queen of England and the Kings or Queens who may succeed Her for ever.
And in token of our consent to all the conditions of this deed we hereunto set our names and marks.
And in token of the consent of the Queen of England on Her part to all the conditions of this deed Mr. McLean the Land Purchase Commissioner of the Government of New Zealand has signed his name.
[Witnesses.]
[Signatures.]
Correct Translation.
T. E. Young, Translator Native Dept.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
Wellington, February 4th, 1876.