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

(Enclosure 7 in No. 466.)

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(Enclosure 7 in No. 466.)

Enclosure 7.Memorandum of agreement made this Tenth day of November One Thousand Eight hundred and Sixty Eight Between Te Moananui Native Chief of the District of Tauranga in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand of the one part and Messrs. Whitaker and Russell, Solicitors of the City of Auckland of the other part.

Whereby the said Te Moananui agrees to sell to the said Messrs. Whitaker and Russell, All that piece or parcel of land situated on the Island of Matakana in the District of Tauranga in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand and known by the name of Whakatopo and containing six hundred acres more or less.

Whakatopo. [600 acres.] And the said Messrs. Whitaker and Russell agree to purchase the said land and to pay to Te Moananui at the rate of Four shillings p. acre in manner following, the sum of Forty pounds on signing this agreement and the balance on the execution of a conveyance for the said land. And the said Te Moananui further agrees to have the said surveyed without loss of time at his cost.

Signed this Tenth day of November One Thousand Eight hundred and Sixty Eight.

Te Moananui Mauac.
Whitaker and Russell.

In the presence of—

Wy. Ashcroft.

I hereby certify that I have read over the above agreement to Te Moananui and that he fully understands its contents.

Richard de Thierry, L.I.

Receipt for £40. Received the sum of Forty pounds stg. on a/c.

Te Moananui Mauao.

Auckland, 10 Novr, 1868.

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