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

[Deeds—No. 109.]

Deeds—No. 109.

Part Block No. 1 ( West Side of Lake), Wairarapa District.

Tenei pukapuka

1853. 14 December. Wairarapa District.

tuku whenua e tuhituhia nei i tenei ra i tekau ma wha 14 o nga ra o Tihema i te tau o to tatou Ariki kotahi mano e waru rau e rima tekau ma toru 1853. He

West Side Of Lake.( Part Block No. 1.)

pukapuka tino wakaae pono na matou mo matou mo o matou whanaunga kia tukua rawatia tetahi wahi o to matou kainga ki a Wikitoria te Kuini o Ingarini ki nga Kingi Kuini ranei o muri iho i a ia ake tonu atu.
Nga

Boundaries.

rohe o te whenua ka timata ki te Ngutuawa o Ponui rere tonu ki Wharetukua rere tonu i runga i te rohe kua hokona ki a te Kuini piki noa ki te poho-o-Tararua ka ahu i runga i te hiwi puta noa ki te Kauru o Manganui o wha puta noa ki Pukaiaia ka ahu mai ki runga i te rohe kua hokona i mua puta noa ki roto ki Ruamahanga tutaki noa ki te Ngutuawa o Ponui, Heoi ko te wahi katoa i wakatapua e matou i te tukunga o te whenua ki a te Kuini i mua. Ko nga utu katoa mo taua wahi E wha nga rau

Five per cents to be paid.

pauna takitahi £400 me nga koha ano ki te ritenga o nga koha mo te wahi o aua whenua kua hokona. E rua rau £200 o aua moni kua riro mai ki a matou i tenei ra na te

Receipt for £200.

Makarini i homai. E rua rau takitahi £200 ko te utu wakamutunga ka homai ki a matou i nga ra o Mei 1854. Heoi ko te otinga tenei o nga tikanga mo tenei whenua ake tonu atu No kona ka tuhia iho o matou ingoa.

Na Wiremu Tamihana Hiko.
Na Raniera te Iho.

Nga kai titiro ki enei homaitanga utu me enei tuhinga ingoa—

W. M. Smith, J.P., Government Surveyor.
John P. Russell, Settler, Wangai Moana, Wairarapa.
Manihera, J.P., Wairarapa.

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.