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

English Deed of Pipitea Block

English Deed of Pipitea Block.

We the undersigned Landowners and Chiefs residing at and belonging to Pipitea in Wellington 1847 1 NovemberWellington District. of the Ngatiawa Tribe agree on the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven to give up to Her Majesty's Government all those cultivations which we have hitherto had on sections on the Karori, Kai Warra Warra Harbour PIPITEA., and Lower Hutt or other District belonging to European Settlers on our receiving English deed (McCleverty's). from Lieutenant Colonel McCleverty subject to the approval of the Governor or Lieutenant Governor portions or blocks of land which we have seen and accepted of as shown and coloured red on the accompanying plan containing in all 7436 acres more or less as marked en Plan 1, No. 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . & on Plan 2, No. 6. the boundaries of which are as follows.
1. Four town sections. [4 acres.] No. 1. Town sections number 633, 634, 635; & 637 bounded on the West by Town Belt and on the East by Karori Road each section containing one acre.
2. Part of Town Belt. [80 acres.] No. 2. Part of the Town Belt bounded on the West by the Kai Warra Warra District, on the South West by section 30 Karori District, on the North by the Town Belt, and on the East by the Karori Road and Town section containing 80 acres.
3. Part of Kaiwharawhara Block. [134 acres.] No. 3. Part 500 acres block on the Western side of the Kai Warra Warra River bounded on the West by the part which belongs to Te Ringa Kuri and on the North by another portion belonging to Ohariu Natives the part given to the Pipitea Natives contains about one hundred and thirty-four-acres.
4. Sections on Porirua Road. [221 acres.] No. 4. A Block of Land on the Porirua Road comprising part of No. 7, and the whole of No. 9, Native Reserves in the Kinapora District containing in all two hundred and twenty-one acres bounded on the West by the Karori Road for fifty chains more or page 109less, on the North by No. 10, section for fifty-eight chains more or less, on the South by No. 6 section for forty five chains and on the East by sections 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 . Harbour District for the distance of seventy-one and a half chains.
No. 5. Seven Town Native Reserves in Polhill's Gully each containing one acre 5. Seven town Native reserves. [7 acres.] (seven acres).
No. 6. A Block of land at Orongorongo contains six thousand nine hundred and ninety acres, or thereabouts, part of which is outside the company's block of the Port 6. Orongorongo Block. [6,990 acres.] Nicholson District. It is bounded on the East and South by the sea (except sixteen chains on the Orongorongo Stream surveyed and lines cut in the Presence of Wairarapa and others, on the North by unsurveyed land and Te Ringa Kuri's land at Mukamuka, on the West by the top of the hills which divide the Vallies of Wainuiomata and Orongorongo the fall of water or streams into the latter to belong to Pipitea In the block are five sections of one hundred acres each, the outside boundaries of which have been surveyed and the lines cut as on the map.
Total for Pipitea. Acres.
MapNo. 1. 4 Town Reserves Tinakon Road 4
" " 2. Part of the Town Belt 80
" " 3. Part of the Block Kaiwarawara 134
" " 4 Part of sections 7 8 & 9 Kinapora District 221
" " 5. 7 Town Reserves (Moturoa's) 7
" " 6. Block of land at Orongorongo 6990
7436

Also a small portion of Native Reserve No. 542 on the beach belonging to Purutu and his family as per plan annexed No. 7, containing one chain.

W. A. McCleverty,
Lt. Colonel.

A True Copy of Original Deed, Translation, and Endorsement.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellingtong, January 7th, 1876.