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

[Deed Receipts—No. 35.]

Deed Receipts—No. 35.

Tukuwaru Reserve Block, Province of Hawke's Bay.

[i roto i te reo Māori]

1859. 15 August. Hawke's Bay.

Kua riro

mai ki a matou i tenei ra i te tekau ma rima (15) o nga ra o Akuhata 1859,

Tukuwaru Reserve

nga pauna moni e wha tekau (£40) na te Makarini i homai ki a matou. Hei utu tenei

Receipt for £40.

ki a matou mo to matou kainga mo te Tukuwaru i whakatapua mo matou i te hokonga tuatahi o te whenua ki te Kuini. Ko taua wahi kua oti i a matou te tino tuku te tino hoko whakaoti atu i tenei ra e whiti nei, me ona rakau me te papa tonu o te whenua kua oti atu i a matou te tuku atu hei tino mau tonu atu ki a Wikitoria Kuini o Ingarangi ki ona uri ki nga Kingi Kuini ranei o muri iho i a ia ake tonu atu.

te Hapuku x tona tohu.
te Haurangi x tona tohu.
Hori Niania.

Nga Kai titiro—

G. S. Cooper.
Peter Bourke.

[ko te tohutoro i roto i te reo Māori]

Translation.

1859. 15 August.

We have received

on this 15th day of August 1859, the sum of forty pounds £40 from

Tukuwaru Reserve

Mr. McLean. This is a payment to us for our land called te Tukuwaru, which was

Receipt for £40.

reserved for us when the land was first sold to the Queen. This land we have finally and entirely sold and assured under the shining sun of this day, with all its trees, and the soil itself, we have conveyed the whole as a sure possession to Victoria the Queen of England Her Heirs and the Kings and Queens Her Successors for ever.

Te Hapuku x his mark,
&c., &c., &c.

Witnesses—

G. S. Cooper.
Peter Bourke.

True Translation.

G. S. Cooper, D.C.

A True Copy of Original Receipt and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, March 1st, 1876.