[Translation.]

Harken all ye tribes. We the chiefs and people of Ngaitahu who have here signed our names and appended our marks to this document on this day, the twelfth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, consent finally to surrender to William Wakefield, the agent of the New Zealand Company, London, or to their representatives, the whole of our lands which lie along the sea cost, commencing at Kaiapoi, the block sold by Ngatitya, the boundary of the Nelson (Province) right along to Otago, joining on to the boundary, that (land) sold by Haimona, commencing from this sea and going across to Kaihiku, thence right over to the other coast, Whakatipu Waitai (Milford Haven),—but the exact delineation is on the plan; but our places of residence and cultivations must still be left to us, for ourselves and our children after us. And the Governor must appoint a quantity of land for us hereafter, when the land has been surveyed; but the whole of the land excepting this is altogether and finally handed over to to the Europeans for ever.

The purchase money delivered to us is two thousand pounds (£2,000). The payment of this money to us is to be done on four several occasions. Paid to us this day, five hundred pounds (£500), at the next payment of five hundred pounds (500) at the next five hundred pounds (£500), and on the last occasion five hundred pounds (£500); in all, two thousand pounds (£2,000).

Hence this signature of our names and signs as a general consent given of ours. Written here as Akaroa, this twelfth day of June, 1848. (Here follow the signatures.)

On the back of the Deed:—Akaroa, 22nd February, 1849.—On this day has the second payment for our lands herein delineated been made, in amount five hundred pounds (£500). Mr. Mantell, Commissioner for extinguishing Native Claims, divided the same amongst us.