Agreement.
Ngaruawahia,
13 March, 1875.
Agreement to lease.We the undersigned do and each of them doth hereby agree to
lease unto Charles Tothill his heirs Executors administrators and assigns for
the term of Twenty one years to be computed from the date hereinafter mentioned
all that piece or parcel of land situate at Waikato and called or known by the
name of Pukemuka, bounded as described in the schedule hereto, yielding and
paying rent at the rate of Five Pounds sterling for each and every one thousand
acres therein contained until such time as the land shall have passed through
the Native Land Court and shall have been stocked with sheep and at such time
the said Charles Tothill or Edwin Torrens Brissenden shall pay an additional
Five Pounds per annum for each and every thousand acres contained in the said
block and we further agree that so soon as the said land shall have passed
through the Native Land Court we will when called upon so to do sign and execute
to the said Charles Tothill and Edwin Torrens Brissenden or their assigns a good
and valid lease of the said land on the terms herein and for a term of Twenty
one years from the date thereof, In Witness Whereof we have hereunto signed our
names.
Rei Paehua.
Wohatau.
Herekana x his mark.
Punoke x his mark.
te Rawaraki x his mark.
Signed by Rei Paehua Wakatau, Herekana and Punoke in the presence of—
J. W. Preece, Licensed
Interpreter, Auckland.