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

Agreement

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.