This Deed made the seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and seventy1870. 7 October.Whanganui district. Between Aperahama Tipae of Wangaehu in the Province of Wellington in the Colony of New Zealand an aboriginal native of the said colony and Representative of the Ngatiapa tribe of the one part and Henry McNeil of Wanganui in the said Province of Wellingtonwaikupa. Contractor of the other part, Witnesseth that in consideration of the rent hereby(Native Reserve.) reserved and of the covenants conditions and agreements herein contained and implied and by the said Henry McNeil his executors administrators and assigns to be paid kept done and performed, The said Aperahama Tipae doth hereby demise and lease unto the said Henry McNeil, All that piece or parcel of land known as the Waikupa Native Reserve situate on the left bank of the Wanganui river in the district of Wanganui containing by admeasurement two thousand two hundred and seventy two acres more or[2,272 acres.] less, as the same together with the linkages thereof is more particularly delineated and described on the plan drawn in the margin hereof colored pink, To hold the same with all the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging unto the said Henry McNeil his executors administrators and assigns from the day of the date hereof for and during and unto the full end and term of twenty one years from thence next ensuing and fully toLease for twenty-one years. be complete and ended, Yielding and paying therefore unto the said Aperahama Tipae his heirs and assigns during the first five years of the said term the yearly rent or sum of one hundred and thirty pounds, the yearly rent or sum of one hundred and forty pounds during the second five years of the said term, the yearly rent or sum of one hundred and fifty pounds during the third five years of the said term and the yearly rent or sum of one hundred and eighty pounds during the remaining six years of the said term, And the said Henry McNeil hereby covenants for himself his executors administrators and assigns with and to the said Aperahama Tipae his heirs and assigns that he and they shall well and truly pay the said rent half yearly together with all rates taxes page 252 and assessments which shall during the said term may be rated taxed charged or assessed upon the land hereby demised or any part thereof or upon the said Aperahama Tipae his heirs or assigns in respect thereof and whereas the said Aperahama Tipae is indebted toReceipt for £119.the said Henry McNeil in the sum of one hundred and nineteen pounds which he said Aperahama Tipae doth hereby acknowledge and the said parties hereto do hereby mutually agree that the said sum of one hundred and nineteen pounds shall be deducted from the first two years' rent in manner following that is to say the sum of fifty nine pounds ten shillings to be deducted by the said Henry McNeil from the first year's rent and the like sum from the second year's rent and the said Aperahama Tipae doth hereby acknowledge the receipt of fifty pounds paid to him by the said Henry McNeil as portion of the first year's rent paid in advance. And the said Aperahama Tipae hereby covenants for himself his heirs and assigns to and with the said Henry McNeil his executors administrators and assigns that he and they shall and will at any time during this demise upon the request of the said Henry McNeil his executors administrators or assigns and upon payment to him the said Aperahama Tipae his heirs or assigns of the sum of Two thousand pounds less whatever balance of the said sum of one hundred and nineteen pounds which may be then unpaid and upon receiving the consent of the proper authority thereto convey and assure the land hereby demised to the said Henry McNeil his heirs or assigns or as he or they may direct free from incumbrances and shall execute any deed or deeds or other documents that may be necessary for vesting the fee simple of the said lands in the said Henry McNeil his heirs or assigns and shall in the event of such request use his utmost endeavours to procure the consent of the proper authority to such conveyance, In witness whereof the said parties have hereto subscribed their names.