Translation.
This deed
conveying land dated this day the eighth (8) of the day of August in the1855. 8 August. Wairarapa District.
year of our Lord 1855. is a paper of the full and true consent of us the chiefs and men of Ngatikahungunu whose names are attached to this paper to entirely give up a piece of our land to Victoria the Queen of England and to all the Kings and Queens her successors for ever.Kopuaranga.
Receipt for £100.
which sum Mr. Cooper has this day paid to us. This is all the payment we are to have for this land.Boundaries.
thence it follows the river to Tihore there it breaks off and runs up along the Queen's boundary to Maiki where it breaks off and runs in a Southerly direction to the Waiawhiti where it breaks off and runs to Rotokura where it closes up.Now we have entirely surrendered this land inherited by us from our ancestors, with all its wood, water, and everything either above or below the soil, and everything connected with the said land: All these we have finally given up under the shining sun of the present day as a sure and certain possession to Victoria the Queen of England and to all the Kings and Queens her successors for ever.
In witness whereof we have hereto subscribed our names and marks, and Mr. Cooper, the Governor's Land Commissioner for this end of New Zealand has also signed his name, at Wellington on this 8th day of August 1855.
G. S. Cooper,
Dist. Native Land Comr.
te Otene.
Matini.
Renata.
Witnesses of Payment and signatures—
signed> George Frederick Swainson, Asst. Surveyor, Wellington, N.Z. Karaitiana.
True Translation.
G. S. Cooper, D.C.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
Wellington, January 12th, 1876.