1853. 19 September.Wairarapa District.This paper or Deed conveying land written on this day on the Nineteenth (19th) of the days of September in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three 1853 Is a deed or paper of the full and true consent of us the Chiefs and peopleTauherenikau No. 4. of Ngatikahungunu whose names are written to this deed on behalf of ourselves our relatives and descendants to entirely convey and transfer a portion of our land or country to Victoria the Queen of England or to the Kings or Queens who may succeed her for ever and ever.

And having agreed and consented as above to transfer a portion of our land Victoria the Queen of England on her part agrees to pay us a sum of Two thousand pounds £2000 in money. One thousand pounds £1000 of the said money has been paid into our hands by Mr. McLean this day.

Two hundred pounds £200 of the said money is to be paid to us in the days of May in the year of Our Lord 1854. Two hundred pounds £200 of the said money is to be paid to us in the days of May in the year of Our Lord 1855. Two hundred pounds £200 of the said money is to beTimes of payment. paid to us in the year of Our Lord 1856. Two hundred pounds of the said money is to be paid to us in the year of our Lord 1857. Two hundred pounds £200 the last instalment for the said land is to be paid to us in the days of May in the year of Our Lord 1858. It is further agreed to by the Queen of England on her part to pay us at certain periods within certain years to be decided on by the Governor of New Zealand and ourselves that is that we are to have a certainFive per cents. additional consideration for the lands we have sold to be paid to us for the forming of schools to teach our children for the construction of flour mills for us, for the construc- page 271tion of Hospitals and Medical attendance for us or other purposes of a like nature in which our people are interested, and also for certain annuities to be paid to us for certain of our Chiefs and for clothes or other presents to our old men or others of our people, but it is hereby agreed that we ourselves and certain officers who shall be appointed by the Queen or Governor of New Zealand, shall carefully discuss in Committee, to which and at what times and in what proportions the said money shall be applied to each of the purposes above specified. The payments to be made annually to our Chiefs are to be decided upon by the Governor of New Zealand only, or by an Officer appointed by him, who shall have the power of deciding as to which Chiefs shall receive the said annual payments. These payments for all the above purposes are to be as follows, that is, when the surveys are complete and the land is resold which we have transferred to the Queen of England or to the Kings or Queens who may succeed her, a certain portion of the money to be received by the Queen or Government of New Zealand as payment for the said land, is to be deducted for the purposes above specified the amount of the money to be returned to us is 5 per cent or equal to five pounds out of every hundred pounds after deducting the surveys and other expenses connected with laying off the said lands. The Boundaries of the land are these commencing at teBoundaries. Rereomahanga thence into the Heretaonga on to Tokahaumia and descends to Otauira and goes inland till it ascends at te Tarehu and descends to the Puatamatoe and thence to Makahakaha on to Motuokaira and thence in an Easterly direction till it strikes te Huruparera and descends into Tauwharenikau and crosses to Motuhinehine and thence through the centre of the Moroa plains till it joins the Haruru o Hakeki on to Waiohine and crosses that river to the Ahera on to Mataraua on to the Tapuaeotahitahi on to Otapahika till it reaches Mangatarere on to Mauroia thence to Mangatarere on to Ahinepuariari on to the Pahuri till it reaches the Hiwera on to the Ahitapi on to the Aokino on to the Manuakore on to Taumata-wakatangi-kuouou and on to Waengaawa and up the Waengaawa to its source thence on to the Hangaohiatangata and on to the source of the Otaki and descends in the Otaki river to the Tarahanga and goes in a southerly direction to Maturangi till the boundary joins to Hakaoterangi.