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Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume One

[Declaration of William Henry Grace]

page 525

[Declaration of William Henry Grace]

I, William Henry. Grace, of Shortland, in the Province of Auckland and Colony of New Zealand, a duly licensed Interpreter under "The Native Lands Act, 1865," "The Declaration of William Henry Grace. Native Lands Act, 1867," "The Native Lands Act Amendment Act, 1868," "The Native Lands Act, 1869," and "The Native Lands Act Amendment Act, 1870," or some or more of them, do solemnly and sincerely declare—
1. That I was present together with John William Richard Guilding, of Shortland aforesaid, Land Agent, a male adult, and did see Matuku and Anaru Matahau, mentioned and described in the within-written Deed, sign, seal, execute, and deliver the said Deed, and also sign the plan annexed thereto and hereto and marked "A" being the plan of the "Hotoritori Block" mentioned and referred in the said within-written Deed, and plan annexed thereto and hereto is of the proper handwriting of the said Matuku, and that the mark "x" set and subscribed to the said within-written. Deed and plan annexed thereto and hereto was made by the said Anaru Matahau, and that the seals set opposite to the said signatures in the said within-written Deed were affixed by them thereto respectively.
2. That the signatures "W. H. Grace" and "J. W. R. Guilding," set and subscribed to the said within Deed and plan annexed thereto and hereto as the witnesses attesting the due execution thereof respectively, are of the respective proper handwriting of the said John William Richard Guilding and me this declarant respectively.
3. That immediately before the execution of the said Deed and plan by the said parties as aforesaid, I did interpret the same to them into the Maori language, and explained to them in the Maori language that the plan annexed thereto and hereto was the plan mentioned and referred to in the said Deed, and my translation and explanation thereof was correct and understood by the said parties so signing, sealing, executing, and delivering as aforesaid.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the above-mentioned Acts of the General Assembly of New Zealand, and of a certain other Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1866."

W. H. Grace.

Made and declared at Shortland in the Province aforesaid, this twenty-first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. Before me—

W. Fraser, R.M.,

One of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the Colony of new Zealand.