Translation.
1858. 12 November. Manawatu District.
This Deed
executed this twelfth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight is a document expressing the binding assent of us the Chiefs and people of Ngatiraukawa whose names are affixed to this Deed on behalf of ourselves and our relatives and our descendants who may be born after us, entirely to surrender a certain portion of our land to Victoria, the Queen of England,Awa Hou No.1.
to the Kings and Queens who may succeed her for ever.Total price, £2,500.
And in consideration of our consent entirely to surrender this portion of our land, Victoria the Queen of England agrees on her part that we should receive the sum of Two thousand five hundred pounds, that is to say if the Reserves are such as Mr.Receipt for £400, advance.
Searancke believes them to be. We have this day received Four hundred pounds paid to us by Mr. Searancke as an advance upon the land, named in the boundaries inserted below. When the arrangements regarding the Reserves have been completed, the balance is to be handed to us.Boundaries.
The boundary of the land commences at Kai Iwi on the Sea Coast, and proceeds to Oruakaitau, thence onward in the middle of Omarupapaka where it comes out to the road which it follows to Pukehinau, thence to Otekura thence in a straight line to the inland side of the Lake Roto Totara; it comes out again at Pakengahau, and falls into the course of the Manawatu, then down the Manawatu to its mouth, where it turns and follows the coast line to Kai Iwi, at the point of commencement.And in testimony of our assent to all the conditions of this deed, we hereunto affix our names and marks.
And in testimony of the consent of the Queen of England on her part, to all the conditions of this Deed, Mr. Searancke, a person commissioned by the Governor of New Zealand to purchase land hereunto affixes his name.
William N.
Searancke,
District
Commissioner, N.L.P.D.
Ihakara Tukumaru and others.
Witnesses—
(Sd.) Thos. U. Cook, Settler, Manawatu.
" Wire Pukapuka.
"
James Grindell, Interpreter N.L.P.D.
" Tamihana te Rauparaha.
" Matene te Whiwhi.
Translation.
William B. Baker, Translator, Native Department.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington, November 23rd, 1875.