Translation.
WeHave Received on this day on the 24th February 1858, the sum
of fifty pounds,1858. 24 February. which Mr. McLean has paid to us in consideration for all our lands
contained within theAhuriri. boundaries of the land sold by Ngatikahungunu, that is of Ahuriri, and
which we haveReceipt for £50. finally surrendered under the shining sun of the present day, to
Victoria, the Queen of England and to all the Kings and Queens Her Successors
for ever. And we will never enter upon these lands to give trouble hereafter.
These are the boundaries; all theBoundaries. boundaries traversed by Ngatikahungunu in company with Mr. Park the
Surveyor, from the Kaweka to Mangatutu, Mohaka, Mangaowhata, Titiokura,
Karakiarangi, Rongomaipapa, and including all the places included in these lands
to which we have any claim. In witness of our sacred assent on this day we have
hereto subscribed our names and marks.
Kingitana Tarewa.
Kipa Tamarahi.
Aperaniko x his mark.
Witnesses—
William N. Searancke, Dist.
Comr., Wairarapa.
G. S. Cooper, Dist. Commr., Hawke's Bay.
And
Mr. McLean Comr. for the Government, also agrees to give us the sum of fifty
1859. 20 August. pounds £50 making altogether one hundred, as a complete settlement for the
land sold by Ngatikahungunu to the Europeans, the whole of which monies we have
received on
Receipt for £50. this 20th of August 1859.
Te Pataka,
&c., &c., &c.
Witnesses—
H. Fitzgerald, Provl. Surveyor. Napier.
Edwd. Towgood, Settler, Pohue.
Te Hapuku x his mark,
&c., &c., &c.
True Translation.
G. S. Cooper, D.C.
A True Copy of Original Receipt and Translation.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington,
March 1st, 1876.