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

No. 2. — [Translation.] Memorandum of the Agreement made between the Governor, Mr. Bell, and the Natives, respecting the Land at Waitohi

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No. 2.
[Translation.] Memorandum of the Agreement made between the Governor, Mr. Bell, and the Natives, respecting the Land at Waitohi.

That place (Waitohi) has been given up by the Natives to the Governor, for a residence for him and the white men. The pa, the harbour, the gardens, and the cultivations, have all been given up. Whereupon the Governor, for his part, will perform the things that are written down below in this memorandum.

1.He and Mr. Bell will survey a Native town, a new town at Waikawa, for the residence of the Natives for ever. Town lots will be surveyed, alike to those which the Governor surveyed for the Natives at Otaki.
2.They will also survey sections outside the town for garden grounds and cultivations for the Natives.
3.They will also plough the land, and will provide seed wheat for the land so ploughed. However, the quantity of land to be ploughed is to be equal to the quantity of ground already cultivated by the Natives at Waitohi. But if the Natives prefer cultivating or ploughing that land themselves, then will they be paid for their labour according to the work done.
4.A wooden church shall also be built,—a place of prayer to our Saviour. The Governor and Mr. Bell will build it within the town at Waikawa.
5.And to finally conclude the payment for Waitohi, for the harbour, for the gardens and cultivations, and for the land, the Governor will pay one hundred pounds once told. When the payment is made the Natives shall leave Waitohi, and shall give it up to the Governor, to Mr. Bell, and to all the white men, for their residence for ever.

Now we, the Natives, have written our names, and the Governor and Mr. Bell theirs. We have all of us written our names to this paper, that thereby may be thoroughly known our entire agreement and consent to all the words and agreements contained in the same.

At Waitohi,

30th December, 1848.