We have this day received at the hands of Mr. McLean the sum of Thirty pounds sterling as payment for our land at Orongorongo and in token of our having received this money on this the twentieth day of August 1853 We have hereunto signed our names on this the ninth day of January 1854;
Witnesses—
(Signed) Manihera, J.P., Wairarapa.
True Translation.
H. T. Kemp.