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

[ko te tohutoro i roto i te reo Māori]

Translation.

This Deed written on this seventeenth 17 day of November in the year of our Lord1851. 17 November. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one 1851, is a paper of the full consent of us theHawke's Bay. chiefs and the people of Ngatikahungunu at this meeting assembled whose names are hereunto subscribed on behalf of ourselves our relations and all our descendants whoAhuriri. shall be born after us entirely to give up our land the plan of which is hereunto attached unto Victoria the Queen of England and to the Kings and Queens her successors for ever, and the Queen of England on her part agrees to pay us for the said land the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds £1500 of which monies one thousand pounds
Receipt for£1,000
Balance due500
£1,500
£1000 has been paid into our hands on this day by Donald McLean, Esquire. The five hundred pounds £500 will be paid to us in the days of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two 1852 as a last instalment for that land for ever.

The Boundaries of the Land.

The boundaries of the land as agreed upon by ourselves at our first meetingsBoundaries. for negotiation with Mr. McLean are these: Commencing at the place where the Tutaekuri and Puremu Rivers discharge themselves into the sea, the boundary runs in the Puremu to Tamihinu on reaching which place it runs in the Tutaekuri to Ohakau when it leaves the Tutaekuri and proceeds along the survey line to Tareha's Post at Umukiwi and along the survey line of Mr. Park the surveyor and ourselves to Kohurau on reaching which place it proceeds to the confluence of the Waiharakeke and Ngaruroro rivers thence the boundary runs along the ridge of Te Kaweka to the confluence of the Mangatutu and Mohaka Rivers and on in the course of the Mohaka to Mangowhata and on in the Mangowhata Stream to the Taupo road and along the said road to Titiokura and along the said road to Kaiwhaka and in the course of the Kaiwhaka to Opotamanui thence to Waiohinganga to Whanganui-o-rotu thence to our reserve at Te Niho thence to Rere-o-tawaki where our reserve ends, the boundary continues thence to Te Puka and on to the Puremu River. And we will not permit any Native to molest the Europeans within these boundaries.

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.

Now these are the portions reserved for ourselves:—Native reserves.
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.

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And 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.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, February 17th, 1876