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.

[Translation.]

Paid to us this day, the 14th of August, 1844, by the Directors of the New Zealand Company at London, through William Wakefield, their principal Agent, the sum of £200 on final payment for the relinquishment of all our claims to the land mentioned in the deed to which this is affixed; that is to say, to all our land at Whakatu, Waimea, Moutere, Motueka, Riwaka, and Te Taitapu (Massacre Bay), in New Zealand, excepting our pahs, cultivation, burial places, and wahi rongoa.^* And we hereby agree to sign a deed to that effect, if called on to do so, to the Directors of the New Zealand Company. The only lands that remain to ug are the places aboye-named.