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 signing
Receipt 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.