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

Deed Receipts—No. 12. Mahinerangi Block, etc., Province of Hawke's Bay

Deed Receipts—No. 12. Mahinerangi Block, etc., Province of Hawke's Bay.

We

the Chiefs whose names are signed hereunder, have received on this day the 21 of

1855. 21 November. Hawke's Bay.

November 1855 the sum of twenty pounds £20 none of this tribe will ever hereafter

Mahinerangi.

ask for payment on account of Mahinerangi or Heretaunga.

Receipt for £20.

(Signed) Hukiki te Matia.
Matene te Whiwhi,
Tamihana te Rauparaha.
Pairoroko te Mahia.
Horomona Toremi.

Witnesses—

(Signed) Rawiri Puaha.
G. S. Cooper, Dist. Comr.
Rawiri Ngawaka.

(Copy.) True Translation.

Signed G. S. Cooper.

A True Copy of Certified Translation of Original Receipt.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, March 1st, 1876.