Translation.
1855. 8 August.Wairarapa District.This Deed conveying land dated this day the eighth of the
days of August in the year ofWainuioru.(Seaward of). Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five 1855 is a paper of
the full and true consent of us the chiefs and men of Ngatikahungunu whose
names are attached to this paper to entirely give up a piece of our land to
Victoria the Queen of England and to all the Kings and Queens her successors
for ever.
And for our consenting entirely to give up this piece of our land Victoria
the Queen of England on her part agrees to pay us the sum of one hundred
pounds £100 inReceipt for £100. money which sum Mr. Cooper has this day paid to us. The arrangements
as to any further sums which may be paid to us for this land are to be
concluded between Mr. Cooper and ourselves when the land shall have been
examined. But in any case the balance is not to exceed £100.
Boundaries. The boundary begins at Wainuioru at the end of the land formerly sold
by te Kaninamu to the Queen following the Wainuioru to Tawakatea thence to the
Ara-a-Tawa thence to the hill te Warihanga, thence to the hill which is the
boundary of the land sold by te Kaninamu, thence to Tarewanga Kotukutuku
thence down said stream to Ngapaiaka when it joins the first boundary at
Wainuioru. This is the last piece of land on the seaward side of Wainuioru.
Now we have finally surrendered this land inherited by us from our ancestors
with all its wood, water and everything either above or below the soil and
everything connected with the said land all these we have finally given up
under the shining sun of the present day as a sure and certain possession to
Victoria the Queen of England and to all the Kings and Queens her successors
for ever.
In witness whereof we have hereto subscribed our names and Mr. Cooper the
Land Commissioner for the Governor in this end of New Zealand, has also signed
his name, at Wellington on this 8th day of August 1855.
G. S. Cooper,
District Native Land Commr.
Nini.
Karaitiana.
Witnesses to payment and signatures—
George Frederick
Swainson, Asst. Surveyor, Wellington.
H. J. E. Webb, Clerk,
Wellington.
A True Translation.
G. S. Cooper, D.C.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington,
January 12th, 1876.