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

Translation

Translation.

This Deed

1853. 14 December. Wairarapa District.

which we have signed on this 14th of December 1853 is a Deed by which we faithfully surrender on our own behalf and on behalf of our Relatives and Descendants a portion of our land to Victoria The Queen of England and to Her Successors for ever.

(Signed) Na Wiremu Tamihana Hiko.
Na Raniera te Iho.

Witnesses—

(Signed) W. M. Smith, J.P., Government Surveyor.
John P. Russell,

Settler, Wangai-Moana, Wairarapa.

Manihera, J.P., Wairarapa.

True Translation.

H. T. Kemp.

A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, January 31st, 1876.