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

Deeds—No. 20. Te Hua, Four Pieces Maori Land, Geet and Bell District

Deeds—No. 20. Te Hua, Four Pieces Maori Land, Geet and Bell District.

This deed made the first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight1873. 1 November.Bell and Grey District. hundred and seventy three Between Paki Taura and Mohi Niumatua both of the Mangaone in the Province of Taranaki and Colony of New Zealand, aboriginal nativesTe Hua. of the one part and Her Majesty the Queen of the other part Witnesseth that in(Four Pieces Maori Land). consideration of the sum of one hundred and five pounds ten shillings paid by the Minister for Public Works to the said Paki Taura and Mohi Niumatua (the receiptReceipt for £105 10s. whereof is hereby acknowledged) they the said Paki Taura and Mohi Niumatua do and each of them doth hereby convey and assure unto Her Majesty the Queen her heirs and successors and assigns all those four pieces or parcels of land situate at the Hua in the said Province of Taranaki and containing together by admeasurement eight acres two roods and thirty five perches more or less being part of unallotted land in the occupation of Maoris, bounded towards the North by like unallotted land one thousand nine hundredBoundaries. [8a. 2r. 35p.] and sixty three links, two hundred and fifty links, six thousand Jour hundred and seventy links, one hundred links and two hundred and forty links, towards the West by allotment numbered 38 one hundred and sixty links and by Native Reserve marked A one hundred and ten links, towards the South also by unallotted land in the occupation of Maoris one hundred and eighty links, one hundred links, six thousand four hundred and ninety links; and one thousand nine hundred and twenty links and by the Mangaone stream and towards the East by Smart road one hundred and ten links, and the Mangaone stream one hundred and twenty links, reserving nevertheless the portion of Native Reserve marked A intersecting the same and the Egmont road through the same, as the same parcels of land are delineated on the plan drawn in the margin of these presents and therein colored pink. Together with all ways rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging and all such estate right title and interest in land to the same as the said Paki Taura and Mohi Niumatua are or shall become seized or possessed of or are by the Immigration and Public Works Act 1870 or the Immigration and Public Works Act page 32Amendment Act 1871 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 above written.

Paki Taura.
Mohi Niumatua x tona tohu.

Signed by the said Paki Taura and Mohi
Niumatua (the same having been
previously read over and interpreted to
to them) in the presence of—

Robert Parris, Civil Commissioner.

7640.

Registration. Wednesday, 8th April, 1874. Received for Registration at 11 o'clock a.m.

(l.s.)

A. S. Douglas,
Registrar of Deeds.

A True Copy of Original Deed and Registration.

Wellington, August 27th, 1875.