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

Translation

Translation.

This Deed entered into on the 30th of March in the year 1854 1854. 30 March. the consenting of Hone Tana and Wiremu Haua and Watene and Tamati and all the Chiefs of the Ngatitai Auckland District. the consenting also of the Queen of England on her part Now we who have signed our names below, the owners of the land described in this Deed Now we the Chiefs of the Hunua. Ngatitai do agree to sell this land to Queen Victoria for the sum of £900 now given to us it is further agreed to by the Queen of England on her part that there shall be paid 10 per cent. on sales to be expended for Native purposes for the following purposes that is to say for the Founding of Schools in which persons of our race may be taught for the Construction of Hospitals in which persons of our race may be tended, for the payment of Medical Attendance for us, for the Construction of Mills for us, for Annuities for our Chiefs or fort other purposes of a like nature, Ten per Cent, or Ten Pounds out of every Hundred Pounds out of all monies from time to time received for this land when it is resold, For this we give up and make over to Victoria the Queen of England and her Heirs and Successors for ever this Land and all thereto belonging.
The Boundaries are these on the West by Hewling's line of the purchase of the Boundaries Wairoa on the South from Hewlin's line at the Waikohukohu to the Manuka and on to Maungaroa and Orapa and the Maire and Taweri Kotukutuku and to the Tawa-hine-te-rere and Tareirei and to Matakawa on the East from Matakawa and descending to the Tipakuri Creek and on in the said Creek until it enters the Mangawheau Creek and on in the said Creek until it enters the Wairoa, On the North by the Creek of the Wairoa and on to Hewling's line being the junction with the West boundary. A sketch of this Land is on the other side of this Deed.

Witness our names—

(Sd.) Hone Tana
Watene
Tamati
Wiremu Hana

(Sd.) Te retimana
Ihaka Takanini
Tataia x his mark

Witnesses——

(Signed) John White, Interpreter

Andrew Sinclair, Clerk, Survey Office

Received by us the sum of £900 the sum agreed to in this Deed hence our signingReceipt for £900 these our names on the 30th of March in the year of our Lord 1854.

(Sd.) Hone Tana
Watene
Tamati
Wiremu Hana

(Sd.) Te retimana
Ihaka Takanini
Taraia x his mark

Witnesses—

(Sd.) John White, Interpreter

(Sd.) Andrew Sinclair, Clerk, Survey Office

A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton

Wellington, March 18th, 1875.