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

Translation

Translation.

Picton, 19 May, 1874.

1874. 19 May. Puketapu District.

This is a Deed

of confirmation by us the chiefs and people of the hapus of Puketapu living at Waikawa in the Province of Marlborough to all the conditions of the Deed of Cession dated the 27th of February 1874 by the chiefs and people of the hapus of Puke

Moa-Whakangerengere No. 3.

tapu of all that land known as the Moa-Whakangerengere-Whakaahurangi block of which the boundaries are set forth in that Deed that is to say commencing at Te Muriwai thence to Kurapeti thence to Ngatoro thence to Maketaua thence to Mangawharawhara

Boundaries. [32,830 acres.]

thence to Waitepuke thence to Mangamawhete thence to Te Harongamuka thence to Te Hononga thence to Manganui thence to Amaia thence to Te Puketirotirohanga thence

to Whakaahurangi here it turns and runs in a Southerly direction to Waipuku thence to Te Wera thence to Kuratawhiti thence to Panitahi thence it follows the boundary of the Queens land to Te Muriwai. We have this day received £50 by the hands of Wi Tako Ngatata. Sufficient. We fully concur in the above mentioned Deed and we have ceded entirely all our rights claims and interests in all the land of which the boundaries

Receipt for £50: Marlborough claims.

have been above described, to Victoria Queen of England her heirs and successors for ever.