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

Ohuka No. 2,906 Block, Hauraki District

Ohuka No. 2,906 Block, Hauraki District.

This Deed made the twelfth day of September one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four 1874. 12 September.Hauraki District. between Piniha Pumoko, Hoani Toaranawhea and Hohepa Toa all of the District of Hauraki in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand aboriginal Ohuka No. 2906. natives (hereinafter called the vendors) of the one part and Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the other part, witnesseth, that in consideration of the sum of Two hundred and ninety-seven pounds paid by Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the said vendors (the Receipt for £297. receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) They the said vendors do hereby convey and assure unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria, All that piece or parcel of land in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement one thousand eight hundred acres more or less and called or known by the name of Ohuka No. 2906 situated in the District of Hauraki in —— County, Bounded on or towards the North Boundaries. by the Apakura River, by lines two hundred and eighty three links and one thousand [1,800 acres.] links, thence by the Oneura Creek, and again by lines one hundred links, two hundred and forty three links, four hundred and twenty six links, four hundred and sixty five links, four hundred and forty links, five hundred and eighty one links and one hundred and eighteen links on or towards the East by the Tairua River on or towards the South page 526by the Ohuka Creek, by lines one hundred and fifty six links, eight hundred and twenty five links, six hundred and sixty two links, eighty one links and seventy two links and by the Kohirahi Creek and on or towards the West by the Apakura River, as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan drawn in the margin hereof edged red, with all the rights and appurtenances thereto belonging, To hold the same unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria her successors and assigns for ever. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto subscribed their names.

Piniha Pumuko.
Hoani Toaranawhea.
Hohepa Toa.

Signed by the said Piniha Pumuko, Hoani Toaranawhea and Hohepa Toa in the presence of us—

J. W. R. Guilding, Licensed Interpreter, Shortland.
Gerald O'Halloran, Land Agent, Shortland.