Translation.
1844. 28 November.New Plymouth District.We have received on the twenty eighth day of November in the
year one thousand eight hundred and forty four from the Agents of the New
Zealand Company in London by the hands of John Tylston Wicksteed one of the Agents of that Company forty red
blankets, eighty white blankets, forty pieces of print, thirty six shirts, four
hundredFitzroy Block yards of calico, twenty frocks, eleven hats, thirty pounds of soap, nine
double barreledReceipt for money, cattle, and goods. guns, two hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco, fify four lbs. of powder,
four jackets, twelve dresses for women, six boxes of caps, five dresses for
women, six other dresses, one linen dress, six shawls, three combs, three rugs,
three pairs of trowsers, sixty iron pots, twelve calves and Fifty Pounds in
money in full consideration of our altogether parting with all our pieces of
land and places within all our lands described in this deedBoundaries. that is to say all the places at Ngamotu within the following
boundaries: Commencing on the Western side of the Wesleyan Mission Station at
the place called Waitapu thence along the line surveyed by "Tukapo" thence
towards the West till it reaches the end of the survey of Captain Creagh's place
numbered twenty-six on the plan of the land at the place called Harakeke, thence
in a Southerly direction to Kokoari thence it goes along the surveyed line in an
Easterly direction to Waerengapoka the end of the survey of Aubrey's place
numbered forty nine on the plan of the land near Te Henui thence in runs along
the surveyed line to Hawehawe thence in an Easterly direction along the survey
of Thatcher's place numbered thirty six on the plan of the land to Te Henui and
Eringa, thence along the stream to the surveyed line outside of Thatcher's
survey thence across the Te Henui thence along the surveyed line to Paipai
thence to the beach thence along the stream to Te Papa thence in a Northerly
direction to the surveyed line at Waerengapoka, thence along the main road to
Watitiri, thence across the stream to Taurangakawau here it turns and goes to
the cliff at Te Puia thence outside of Bain's house to the Swamp thence across
to Waiwhakaiho thence to the sea coast at Waitapu. These are the boundaries
which we have been gone over and pointed out by us along with Mr. McLean Mr.
Forsaith and Mr. Whiteley and Haki; the pas, cultivations, burial places, and
reserves are all that we retain and we agree to sign our names to a proper deed
of cession hereafter, on being requested so to do, to the Agents of the said
Company of all our places in the said land excepting these places above
mentioned.
[Witnesses.]
[Here follow signatures.]
Correct Translation.
T.E. Young,
Translator Native
Department.