[Declaration of Henry Martyn Hamlin]
I, Henry Martyn Hamlin, of Clive, in the Province of Hawke's
Bay, do solemnly and Declaration of Henry Martyn Hamlin. sincerely declare that I am a duly licensed Interpreter under the Native
Land Acts, 1865 and '67, and was present and did see Poihipi Tukairangi and
Hamuera Takurua sign the within-written Deed of Conveyance, and that before they
signed it I carefully interpreted and explained it to them, and the contents
thereof were fully understood by them previous to their execution thereof, and
that the said Deed of Conveyance dated 19th July, 1870, was signed by the said
Poihipi Tukairangi and Hamuera Takurua on the nineteenth day of July, 1870, in
the presence of myself the said Henry Martyn Hamlin and of Alexander Munro, of
Napier, Surveyor, a male adult European, who subscribed our names as the
attesting witnesses to their execution thereof. And I make this solemn
declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the
Native Lands Acts now in force in New Zealand.
H. M. Hamlin.
Declared at Napier this eighteenth day of October, 1870, in the presence of—
B. A. Ferard,
A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.