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A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.

Copy of Deed or Release signed by the Natives of Motueka, in relinquishment of-their claims to Land at Whakatu (Nelson), Waimea, Moutere, Motuaka, Riwaka, Taitapu (Massacre Bay), excepting their Pas, Cultivations and Burial-places, to the New Zealand Company

Copy of Deed or Release signed by the Natives of Motueka, in relinquishment of-their claims to Land at Whakatu (Nelson), Waimea, Moutere, Motuaka, Riwaka, Taitapu (Massacre Bay), excepting their Pas, Cultivations and Burial-places, to the New Zealand Company.

Kua homai ki a matou, i te rua tekau ma wha o Akuhata i te tau Kotahi mano waru rau wha tekau ma wha e nga Kai Whakariterite o te Wakaminenga o Nui Tireni i Ranana, he mea utu mai e Wiremu Wekepiri (William Wakefield) e te kai mahi o taua Whakaminenga e rua rau Pauna moni (£200), he tino utunga he tino Whakaritengs, he wakamahuetanga rawatanga i to matou papa katoa i o matou wahi katoa, i roto i o matou whenua katoa, kua tuhi tuhia ki roto i te pukapuka kua whakapiria ki tenei na; ara ko nga wahi katoa i Whakatu, i Waimea, i Te Moutere, i Mctueka, i Riwaka, i Te Taitapu (Massacre Bay), i Nui Tireni, ko nga pa ia, ko nga Ngakinga, ko nga Wahi Tapu, ko nga Wahi rongoa anake, e toe ki a matou, a ka whakaae matou kia tuhia e maton o matou ingoa ki tetahi pukapuka tuku wenua a muri na, me e kiia mai kia tuhia ki nga kai Whakariterite o taua Whakaminenga, i o matou wahi katoa i roto i aua wenua heoti ano nga wahi e waiho mo matou, ko nga wahi kua korerotia ra i Mua.

Ko nga ingoa enei o nga kai titiro i te tuhinga, i nga ingoa.

Ngapiko, tana x tohu.
Te Iti, tana x tohu.
Apperahama Iraki, tana x tohu.
Natana Ki.
Hohena Tongennera, tana x tohu.
On behalf of the remainder of the Motueka Natives,George Clarke, Junr.,
Protector of Aborigines.

William Spain,
Commissioner. George Clarke, Jun.,
Protector of Aborigines. Henry F. Butt,
Curate of Nelson. Donald Sinclair,

Chief Police Magistrate and Govt. Representative.

A. Mcdonald,

Manager, Union Bank of Australia, Nelson.