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

Translation

Translation.

We

Have Received

on this day on the 24th February 1858, the sum of fifty pounds,

1858. 24 February.

which Mr. McLean has paid to us in consideration for all our lands contained within the

Ahuriri.

boundaries of the land sold by Ngatikahungunu, that is of Ahuriri, and which we have

Receipt for £50.

finally surrendered under the shining sun of the present day, to Victoria, the Queen of England and to all the Kings and Queens Her Successors for ever. And we will never enter upon these lands to give trouble hereafter. These are the boundaries; all the

Boundaries.

boundaries traversed by Ngatikahungunu in company with Mr. Park the Surveyor, from the Kaweka to Mangatutu, Mohaka, Mangaowhata, Titiokura, Karakiarangi, Rongomaipapa, and including all the places included in these lands to which we have any claim. In witness of our sacred assent on this day we have hereto subscribed our names and marks.

Kingitana Tarewa.
Kipa Tamarahi.
Aperaniko x his mark.

Witnesses—

William N. Searancke, Dist. Comr., Wairarapa.
G. S. Cooper, Dist. Commr., Hawke's Bay.

And Mr. McLean Comr. for the Government, also agrees to give us the sum of fifty

1859. 20 August.

pounds £50 making altogether one hundred, as a complete settlement for the land sold by Ngatikahungunu to the Europeans, the whole of which monies we have received on

Receipt for £50.

this 20th of August 1859.

Te Pataka,
&c., &c., &c.

Witnesses—

H. Fitzgerald, Provl. Surveyor. Napier.
Edwd. Towgood, Settler, Pohue.
Te Hapuku x his mark,
&c., &c., &c.

True Translation.

G. S. Cooper, D.C.

A True Copy of Original Receipt and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, March 1st, 1876.