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

Pouto Block, Wairoa, Kaipara District

Pouto Block, Wairoa, Kaipara District.

This Deed1873 5 December.Kaipara District.Pouto. made the Fifth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy three Between Heta Paikea, Eramiha Paikea and Pairama Ngatahi all of Kaipara in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand Aboriginal Natives of the said Colony of the one part and Her Majesty Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith of the other part Whereas Paikea te Hekena of Kaipara aforesaid Aboriginal Native and Pairama Ngatahi aforesaid party hereto being under and by virtue of a Certificate of Title ordered to be issued by the Native Land Court of New Zealand at a Court holden at Helensville in the District of Kaipara and Province of Auckland fourth day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy three or otherwise seised in fee simple in possession as tenants in common of or otherwise well entitled to the Land hereinafter mentioned contracted with John Rogan Esquire a Judge of the aforesaid Native Lands Court acting on behalf of Her said Majesty for the absolute sale to Her said Majesty of the said Land for the price or sum of Fifty pounds And whereas at or about the time the said contract was entered into the purchase money aforesaid was actually paid Receipt for £50. by the said John Rogan to the said Paikea te Hekena and Pairama Ngatahi as is hereby acknowledged And whereas the said Paikea te Hekena departed this life intestate before the completion of the Conveyance of the said Land And whereas at a sitting of the Native Lands Court holden at Helensville in the Province of Auckland on the twenty-ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three it was ordered that the aforesaid Heta Paikea and Eramiha Paikea ought to succeed to the estate and interest of the said Paikea te Hekena in the said Land by virtue of which Order and under the provisions of "The Native Lands Act, 1865," all the estate and interest in the said land of the said Paikea te Hekena became vested in the said Heta Paikea and Eramiha Paikea who have agreed to execute the Conveyance of the same hereinafter contained Now this deed witnesseth that in pursuance of the said Agreement and in consideration of the said sum of Fifty pounds paid as aforesaid to the said Paikea te Hekena and the said Pairama Ngatahi the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged They the said Heta Paikea, Eramiha Paikea and Pairama Ngatahi do and each of them doth hereby grant convey and assure unto Her said Majesty her successors and Boundaries. [10 acres,] assigns All that piece or parcel of Land containing by admeasurement Ten acres more or less called "Pouto" situate at Te Wairoa in the District of Kaipara in the Province of Auckland aforesaid Bounded towards the north-east by the Wairoa River towards the East by the said River towards the south by a line Four hundred and seventy-nine links towards the south-west by a line One thousand three hundred and eighty-eight links, and towards the north-west by a line Four hundred and sixty-nine links As the same is delineated in the plan drawn hereon edged red Together with the actual or reputed appurtenances and all the estate and interest of them the said Heta Paikea Eramiha Paikea and Pairama Ngatahi and of each of them therein To hold the same unto and to the use of Her said Majesty her successors and assigns for ever In Witness whereof the said parties have hereunto subscribed their names.

Eramiha Paikea.
Pairamanguihi
Heta Pai Kea.

Signed by the said Eramiha Paikea in the presence of—

Edwin Turner Woon, Licensed Interpreter, Auckland.
Edward Bennett, Solicitor, Auckland.

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Signed by the said Pairama Ngatahi, and Heta Paikea, in the presence of—
Edwin Turner Woon, Licensed Interpreter, Auckland.

James Hand, Boatman, Kaipara.