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 Natiapa and Rangitane Tribes

1866. 14 December.

at the Parewanui meeting to receive their share of the purchase money do hereby in the

Receipt for £15,000.

presence of the assembled Tribes and on their behalf, acknowledge to have received from

(Ngatiapa and Rangitane.)

His Honor I. E. Featherston Land Purchase Commissioner the sum of Fifteen thousand pounds (£15,000) for distribution among the aforesaid tribes and the secondary claimants related to them.

Hunia te Hakeke x his mark.
Aperahama Tipae x his mark.

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

Witnesses to marks and to payment—

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