This Deed made the eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand1873. 11 December.Waitara West District. eight hundred and seventy three Between Wi Putu of Picton in the Province of Marlborough in the Colony of New Zealand aboriginal native, Wiremu Petuha of Okato in the Province of Taranaki and Colony aforesaid aboriginal native Mere Ngawai andPt. Rural Section No. 97. Ria Petuha both of the Waiongona in the Province of Taranaki aforesaid aboriginal Natives of the one part and Her Majesty the Queen of the other part Witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of Ten pounds ten shillings paid by the Minister of Public Works, to the said Wi Putu Wiremu Petuha, MereReceipt for £10 10s. Ngawai, and Ria Petuha (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) they the said Wi Putu, Wiremu Petuha, Mere Ngawai and Ria Petuha do and each of them doth hereby convey and assure unto Her Majesty the Queen her heirs and successors and assigns All that piece or parcel of land situate in the Waitara West District in the Province of Taranaki aforesaid being part of rural section numbered 97 and containing by admeasurement one acre one rood and nine perches (more or less) bounded towards the. East partly by Lepper road one hundredBoundaries, [1a. 1r. 9p.] and sixty links and partly by other part of the said section numbered 97 twenty five links, towards the West partly by a road one hundred and ten links and partly by other part of said section numbered 97 twenty five links and twenty five links towards the North by other part of said section numbered 97 and a piece of land called Sentry Hill six hundred and thirty links seventy five links and four hundred and forty links and towards the South by other part of said section numbered 97 five hundred and eighty links and five hundred links as the same is delineated on the plan drawn on 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 they the said Wi Putu, Wiremu Petuha Mere Ngawai, and Ria Petuha 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 Amendment 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.