1869. 17 April.Hauraki District.This Agreement written on this seventeenth day of April in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine, Between the chiefs of the tribe Ngatimaru the Gold Mining Agreement. names of whom are underwritten on the one part and Sir George Ferguson Bowen Te Hape. Governor of New Zealand on the other part Witnesseth the consent of the Chiefs the names of whom are underwritten for themselves and their heirs to demise to Sir George Ferguson Bowen and the Governors who shall succeed him a certain piece of land situated in the district of Hauraki for gold mining purposes for himself and his assigns within the meaning of the Gold Fields Act 1866 and the Gold Fields Act (Native Lands) Boundaries. 1868, the boundaries of that piece of land commence at the mouth of the Hape stream at Kauaeranga thence by low-water mark of the river Waiwhakaurunga to the mouth of that River at low water spring tides thence by low water mark to a post standing at the sea side (at low water) thence in a straight line in an Easterly direction page 471to the mouth of the Karaka stream at high water mark thence by high water mark along the sea beach to the point of commencement at the mouth of the Hape stream as shown in the map hereunto annexed. The following are the conditions under which Terms of surrender. this land is demised for gold mining purposes, viz., all the conditions contained in the agreement to demise lands for gold mining purposes made at Hauraki on the ninth day of March 1868 Between the chiefs of Ngatimaru and Ngatinaunau on the one side and Sir George Ferguson Bowen Governor of New Zealand on the other part shall be enforced over that piece of land (the number of that document as per duty stamp being 542 and the said stamp being defaced 17 March 1869) that is all the arrangements for mining for gold and for payment to us and all other conditions shall be the same as those which are written in that document.