[ko te tohutoro i roto i te reo Māori]
Translation.
Receipt for | £1,000 |
Balance due | 500 |
£1,500 |
The Boundaries of the Land.
At former meetings for negotiation between ourselves and Messrs. McLean and Park at Te Awapuni we agreed to entirely give up all the stony spit from Ruahoru to Ahuriri, we also agreed entirely to give up Mataruahou, Pukemokimoki being the only portion of Mataruahou reserved for ourselves, together with the small piece of land where the children and family of Tareha are buried during such time as it remains unoccupied by the Europeans.
Now we have in our assemblies sighed over wept over and bidden farewell to and solemnly consented entirely to give up these lands descended to us from our ancestors with their seas rivers waters timber and all appertaining to the said land to Victoria the Queen of England for ever.
1st. | The first. The island in the Whanganui-o-rotu lake named Te Roro-o-kuri. |
2nd. | The second. The portion surveyed by Mr. Park the surveyor named Wharerangi as a lasting possession for ourselves. The boundaries of the said piece of land commence at Te Niho thence along the survey line to Whakamarumaru turning thence to Ahititi on reaching which place it runs along the survey line to Rere-o-tawaki and on to Te Niho. |
3rd. | The third. Five hundred 500 acres at the place called Puketitiri with a right to snare birds throughout the whole of the forest of Puketitiri. |
We also agree that the Queen's line of road may be laid off and constructed through our reserves at such times as the Governor of New Zealand shall see fit to commence such roads.
It is agreed that we shall have an equal right with the Europeans to the fish cockles muscles and other productions of the sea and that our canoes shall be permitted to land at such portions of the town as shall be set apart by the Governor of New Zealand as a landing place for our canoes.
And in testimony of our true assent in the presence of this assembly to all the conditions of this Deed which has this day been read over to us by Donald McLean Esquire we hereunto sign our names and marks.
page 492And in testimony of the consent of the Queen of England to all the conditions of this Deed the name of Donald McLean the Government Land Commissioner is hereunto affixed.
(Signed) Donald
McLean,
Land Commissioner.
(Signed) Tareha x his mark.
Paora Torotoro.
Karanama te Nahu x,
and 297 other signatures.
Witnesses to these payments and to these signatures—
(Sd.) Robert Park, Government Surveyor.
Alex. Alexander, Settler.
Edward Spencer Curling, Settler.
Frederick Sedgwick Abbott,
Settler.
Wiremu Tako, Wellington Chief.
James Buchanan McKain.
C. L. H. Pelichet, Assistant Surveyor.
James Williamson, Clerk.
J. Thomas, J.P.
True Translation.
(Sd.) Wm. B. Baker,
for the Chief Commissioner.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
Wellington, February 17th, 1876