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Reports of the Native Affairs Committee, 1879, No. 2.

Translation. — No. 14, Session I.—Te pukapuka-inoi a Erueti Katipa

Translation.
No. 14, Session I.—Te pukapuka-inoi a Erueti Katipa.

E ki ana te kai-pitihana no te tau 1844 ka riro mai i te Kawana o Niu Tireni tetahi tiwhikete tuatahi ki a ia, whakaae ki a ia ki te hoko i tetahi whenua i nga Maori, a no taua tau ano ka hoko ia, e £300 ona moni i pau.

Na notemea e toru noa nga kai-ruri i reira i taua takiwa kaore i taea e ia te whakarite nga kupu, me nga tikanga i takoto i roto i te panui a te Kawanatanga, a Whakakorea ana tona take i runga tena. Kua riro taua whenua i te Kawanatanga kua hokona e ratou, kihai ratou i utu i a ia i te kai-pitihana, i nga Maori ranei nona taua whenua. E inoi ana te kai-pitihana kia utua ia kia whakaorangia pewhea ranei.

Kua whakahaua ahau kia ki penei:—

Ki te whakaaro a tenei Komiti kaore he kupu tohutohu mo runga i te tono a te Katipa.

Oketopa 23, 1879.