1873. 23 December.Waitara District.This Deed made the twenty third day of December in the year of our Lord oneRaleigh.(Sections 3 and 4, Block 89.) thousand eight hundred and seventy three Between Charles Brown of New Plymouth in the Province of Taranaki and Colony of New Zealand Esquire of the first part Thomas Colson of New Plymouth aforesaid settler of the second part and Her Majesty the Queen of the third part, Whereas by Deed of Mortgage bearing date the eleventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy three and made between the said Charles Brown of the one part and the said Thomas Colson of the other part the said Charles Brown conveyed and assured unto the said Thomas Colson (inter alia) the pieces or parcels of land hereinafter described and intended to be hereby conveyed for securing the repayment to the said Thomas Colson his executors administrators and assigns of the principal sum of three hundred pounds with interest at the rate and at the times therein mentioned, And whereas the said pieces or parcels of land being required for the Waitara and New Plymouth Railway the said Charles Brown with the consent ofIn exchange for sections 11 and 12, Block 88. the said Thomas Colson (testified by his being a party to and executing these presents) hath agreed to sell and convey the same to the Minister of Public Works in exchange or for sectionsBoundries. [2 roods.] numbered respectively eleven (11) and twelve (12) of Block eighty eight (88) in the township of Raleigh in the Province of Taranaki aforesaid free from all incumbrances created by the said hereinbefore in part recited Deed of Mortgage, Now this Deed Witnesseth that for effectuating such agreement and in consideration of the premises he the said Charles Brown doth hereby convey and assure unto the said Thomas Colson (at the request and by the direction of the said Charles Brown) Doth hereby convey assure release ratify and confirm unto Her Majesty the Queen her heirs and successors and Assigns, All those two pieces or parcels of land situate in the township of Raleigh Waitara West in the Province of Taranaki aforesaid being sections numbered respectively three and four of block numbered eighty nine and containing by admeasurement two roods (more or less) bounded towards the North east by Queen street one hundred and twenty five links towards the North West by sections numbered respectively one and two four hundred links, towards the South West by Domett Street one hundred and twenty five links and towards the South East by sections numbered respectively five and six four hundred 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 they the said Charles Brown and Thomas Colson 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 two pieces or parcels of land and premises unto Her Majesty the Queen her heirs and successors and assigns for ever.