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

Receipt

Receipt.

We the undersigned being the chiefs nominated by the Ngatiraukawa and Ngatitoa

1866. 14 December.

tribes at the Parewanui meeting to receive their share of the Purchase money do hereby

Receipt for £10,000.

in the presence of the assembled tribes and on their behalf acknowledge to have received

(Ngatirankawa and Ngatitoa.)

from His Honor I.E. Featherston Land Purchase Commissioner, the sum of Ten thousand pounds (£10,000) for distribution among the aforesaid tribes and the Secondary claimants related.to them.

Ihakara Te Hokotiritukuri.
Aperahama Te Huruhuru x his mark.

Dated at Parewanui this Fourteenth day of December a.d. 1866.

Witnesses to signatures and to payment—

W. J. Kennard, Gent., London.
C. Wentworth Dilke, Barrister, London.
S. E. Illingworth, B.A., London.
A. Follett Halcombe, Settler, Rangitikei, J.P.
Maillard Noake, Rangitikei, J.P.
M. W. Anderson, Wellington Contractor.
Walter Buller, Wanganui, Resident Magistrate.