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

Translation

[ko te tohutoro i roto i te reo Māori]

Translation.

We have received on this twenty fourth (24) day of February in the year 1857 the sum1857. 24 February of one thousand pounds (£1000) once told these monies were paid to us by Mr. Cooper.Hawke's Bay. This is the final instalment which it was agreed should be given to us in the days of March in the year 1856. Now all the payments whatsoever have been given to us notMatau-A-Maui. (Cape Kidnapper.) a single payment remains to be made to us for the lands the boundaries of which have been recited in, the above written Deed which have been entirely given up by us toReceipt for £1,000, last instalment. Victoria the Queen of England to the Kings and Queens who may succeed her for ever. And in consideration of the payment to us of these monies at Pa Whakairo on this day we have signed our names and marks to this deed.

Te Moananui Hawea x, and 10 others.

Witnesses—

H. S. Tiffen, Land Comr., Napier.
Samuel Williams, Minr., of Heretaunga.

A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington February 19th, 1876.