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

[Deeds—No. 137.]

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Deeds—No. 137.

Wainuioru Block (Seaward of), Wairarapa District.

Tenei pukapuka tuku whenua e tuhituhia nei i tenei ra i te waru 8 o nga ra o Akuhata1855. 8 August.Wairarapa District. i te tau o to tatou Ariki 1855. He pukapuka tino whakaae pono na matou na nga rangatira me nga tangata o Ngatikahungunu e mau nei nga ingoa ki tenei pukapuka kia tino tukua rawatia tetahi wahi o to matou kainga ki a Wikitoria te Kuini oWainuioru(Seaward of). Ingarangi ki nga Kingi Kuini ranei o muri iho i a ia, a ake tonu atu.
A mo to matou Whakaaetanga kia tino tukua rawatia tenei wahi o to matou kainga e whakaae ana a Wikitoria te Kuini o Ingarangi mona kia utua matou ki nga pauna moni kotahi te rau takitahi (£100) ko aua moni kua riro mai ki a matou i tenei ra na teReceipt for £100. Kupa i homai ko te tikanga mo etahi atu moni ki a matou hei utunga whakamutunga mo tenei kainga, ka whakaritea e te Kupa ki a matou me ka kitea te ahua o te kainga Otira ekore aua toenga e rahi ake i te Kotahi rau pauna.

Ka timata te rohe ki Wainuioru, ki te pito o to te Kaninamu kainga i tuku ai ki a Boundaries. te Kuini i mua ka haere i Wainuioru mau rawa atu ko Tawhakatea mau rawa atu ko te Araatawa, mau rawa atu ki te hiwi i te Wharehanga haere i te hiwi i te rohe o to te Kaninamu kainga mau rawa atu ko Tarewanga Kotukutuku rere tonu i roto i te awa mau rawa atu ko Ngapaiaka ka tutaki ano ki te timatanga ra ano o te rohe ki Wainuioru Heoi ko te whakaaetanga rawatanga tenei o te whenua ki te taha ki tai o Wainuioru.

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Heoi kua oti i a matou te tino tuku rawa i tenei kainga o a matou tupuna tuku iho ki a matou me ona rakau me ona wai me ona mea katoa ki runga ranei o te whenua ki raro ranei o te whenua me ona aha noa iho o taua kainga ka tino tukua rawatia e matou i tenei ra e whiti nei hei whenua pumau tonu iho ki a Wikitoria te Kuini o Ingarangi, ki nga Kingi Kuini ranei o muri iho i a ia ake tonu atu.

No konei hoki ka tuhia iho o matou ingoa me o matou tohu me te ingoa hoki o te Kupa te Kai Whakarite Whenua o te Kawana mo tenei pito o Nui Tireni, ki Poneke i tenei ra i te 8 Akuhata 1855.

G. S. Cooper,
District Native Land Commr.
Na Nini.
Na Karaitiana.

Nga Kai-titiro ki tenei homaitanga moni me tenei tuhinga ingoa—

George Frederick Swainson, Asst. Surveyor, Wellington.
H. J. E. Webb, Clerk, Wellington.

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.

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