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

Translation

Translation.

Greytown, 9th day of November, 1870.

1870. 9 November. Wairarapa District.

We

have

this day received a portion of the five per cents on our block of land which we sold to the Government formerly, in the Wairarapa District, the name of that block is Whareama Block No. 2 Patunui te Waiwharawhara. We have this day received the

Whareama No. 2.

five per cents due from the cession of the land up to the 30th June 1869. The amount

Receipt for £110. [Five per cents.]

of five per cents we have now received is One hundred and ten pounds sterling and the Government will furnish us with the accounts of the pieces sold within that block up to that time.

Mr. Kemp Commissr. of the Government has paid us these five per cents in the presence of Mr. Wardell Resident Magistrate of the Government of New Zealand at Wairarapa.

(Signed) Nepia Pohuhu x his mark, and others.

Witnesses—

(Sd). H. S. Wardell, R. M., Wairarapa.
(Sd.) H. S. Byrn, Constable, Wairarapa District.

A True Copy of Original Receipt and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, January 5th, 1876.