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

Deeds—No. 81b. Pikokiko No. 2 Block, Whanganui District. — Crown Grant to Wiremu Matenga Tauwhio and Others

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Deeds—No. 81b. Pikokiko No. 2 Block, Whanganui District.
Crown Grant to Wiremu Matenga Tauwhio and Others.

Know ye that, for good considerations, Us thereunto moving, We, for Us, our Heirs1873. 17 December.Whanganui District. and Successors, do hereby Grant unto Wiremu Matenga Tauwhio, Henare Tahau,Pikopiko No. 2. Tamati Reina Tauwhiro, Mohi Tukino, Heta Toka, Ihaia Tauwhanaki, Menehira Whena, Manganui, Te Pohe, and Wiremu Tete Tauwhiro of the District of Whanganui in the Province of Wellington Aboriginal Natives of New Zealand their Heirs and Assigns, All that Parcel of Land in our Province of Wellington in our Colony of New Zealand, containing by admeasurement Three hundred and ten (310) acres more or less situate at Mangawhero in the District of Whanganui being called or known by the name of "Pikopiko No. 2" and numbered Two thousand six hundred and eighty six (2686) Bounded towards the North East by the Kaikai Block One thousand and eighty sixBoundaries.[310 acres.] (1086) links Three hundred and fifty five (355) links and One hundred and thirty three (133) links and by the Otaika Block Two hundred and forty five (245) links and Three thousand one hundred and ninety four (3194) links Towards the South East by the Makirikiri No. 2 Block One hundred and forty seven (147) links Two hundred and thirty five (235) links Five hundred and ninety one (591) links Three hundred and five (305) links Two hundred and ninety six (296) links Four hundred and five (405) links and Three hundred and six (306) links and by the Makirikiri Block One hundred and ninety two (192) links Seven hundred and sixty seven (767) links Two hundred and eighty one (281) links Two hundred and fifty nine (259) links Seven hundred and twenty four (724) links One hundred and eighty three (183) links One hundred and seventeen (117) links and Four hundred and ninety eight (498) links Towards the South West by the said Makirikiri Block One thousand five hundred and ninety (1,590) links Three hundred and five (305) links Six hundred and thirty five (635) links and One thousand two hundred (1,200) links and by the Matatara Stream and Towards the North West by Te Kiekie Stream and the Pikokiko No. 1 Block Four thousand seven hundred and seventy (4770) links Subject however to the right conferred on the Governor of NewSubject to right of road for ten years. Zealand by the Native Lands Act 1865 of taking and laying off roads through the said land without compensation Provided that the total quantity of land to be taken there for shall not be more than after the rate of Five acres for every One hundred acres and that the land taken for such roads be not occupied by any building garden orchard plantation or ornamental ground Such right to cease at the expiration of ten years from the date hereof As the same is delineated on the Plan drawn in the margin hereof With all the Rights and Appurtenances thereto belonging: To hold unto the said Wiremu Matenga Tauwhio, Henare Tahau, Tamata Reina Tauwhiro, Mohi Tukino, Heta Toka, Ihaia Tauwhanaki, Menehira Whena, Manganui, Te Pohe, and Wiremu Tete Tauwhiro their heirs and assigns for ever as from the Twenty first day of July One thousand eight hundred and seventy three. In testimony whereof we have caused this our Grant to be sealed with the Seal of our Colony of New Zealand.

Witness our Trusty and Well beloved Sir James Fergusson Baronet a member of Our Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand, at Christchurch, this seventeenth day of December, in the thirty seventh year of our Reign, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy three.

(l.s.)

James Fergusson.

No. 3,153.
Reg. W. 19.
J. Bathgate.

Transfer No. 2,226.

Transfer No. 2,226, dated 18th July, 1873, and produced 30th April, 1877, at 31873. 18 July. p.m. Wiremu Matenga Tauwhiro, Henare Tahau, Tamati Reina Tauwhiro, Mohi Tukino, Heta Toka, Ihaia Tauwhanaki, Menehira Whena, Manganui, Te Pohe, and Wiremu Tete Tauwhiro, to Her Majesty the Queen.Transfer to the Crown.

Andw. Turnbull,
Depy. D.L.R.

Register Book vol. 3, fo. 23.

A True Copy of Original Crown Grant and Transfer.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, 20th August, 1877.