This Deed made the sixth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight1873. 6 December.New Plymouth District. hundred and seventy three Between Robert Parris of New Plymouth in the Province of Taranaki and Colony of New Zealand Commissioner of Native Reserves of the one partPukenui. (Part Native Reserve No. 14). and Her Majesty the Queen of the other part Whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The New Zealand Native Reserves Act 1856" certain powers therein specified are vested in the Commissioners under the said Act, and whereas by another Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Native Reserves Amendment Act 1862" all the powers and authorities which by the said Native Reserves Act 1856 are given to or vested in or which may be exercised by Commissioners appointed or to be appointed under that Act shall vest in and may be exercised by the Governor of New Zealand and it is by the said Act of 1862 further enacted that the said Governor may by an order in Council delegate all or any of the powers competent to the Commissioners under the first recited Act unto any person or persons for any period subject to any restrictions which may be specified in such order, And whereas by an order in Council bearing date the twenty eighth day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty four His Excellency Sir George Grey (the then Governor of New Zealand) in exercise of the powers and authorities so vested in him as Governor of New Zealand as aforesaid did delegate unto the said Robert Parris all the powers competent to Commissioners under the said first recited Act without any restrictions or stipulations whatsoever, And whereas the said Robert Parris hath in exercise of the powers so vested in him as aforesaid and with the consent of His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand sold the parcel of land hereinafter described to the Minister of Public Works for the purposes of the Waitara and New Plymouth Railway for the sum of Fifteen pounds, Now this Deed witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of Fifteen pounds paid by the Minister of Public Works to the said Robert Parris (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) He the said Robert Parris in exercise ofReceipt for £15. the Powers and authorities so delegated to him as aforesaid doth hereby convey and page 6assure unto Her Majesty the Queen her heirs and successors and assigns, All those two pieces or parcels of land situate in the town of New Plymouth being parts of Native Reserve numbered 14 called Pukenui and containing together by admeasurement twoBoundaries. [2r. 13p.] roods and thirteen perches more or less, bounded towards the East partly by Watson Street forty links, and partly by a stream, towards the West by a stream, towards the North partly by part of said Reserve three hundred links and partly by a stream and towards the South by part of said Reserve six hundred and sixty links and two hundred and fifty links as the same is delineated on the plan drawn in the margin hereof and colored pink, Together with all ways rights and appurtenances thereto belonging and all such estate right title and interest in and to the same as he the said Robert Parris is or shall become seized or possessed of, or is by the Immigration and Public Works Act 1870 or the Immigration and Public Works Act Amendment Act 1871 or is by virtue of the powers and authorities so delegated to him as aforesaid empowered to convey or otherwise assure, To hold the said land and premises unto Her Majesty the Queen her heirs and successors and assigns for ever. In Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto subscribed their names the day and year first hereinbefore written.