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

Translation

Translation.

WeHave Received on this fifth day of July in the year of Our Lord 1859 the sum of One1859. 5 July. hundred Pounds in money (£100) paid to us by Mr. McLean for our land reserved atMohaka-Waikare Reserve. Te Heruotureia that is for all the portion reserved by us formerly at the time of the sale of Mohaka and Waikare that is to say the place where Te Kohuoterangi and others ofReserve for £100. our dead were buried. All that portion which was reserved we now fully cede under the shining sun of this day to Victoria the Queen of England and to the Kings or Queens who may succeed Her for ever. We will never go back upon this place it was the only place reserved for us formerly out of this sale and we now cede it in order to put an end to the disputes respecting the stock of the Europeans running on that place there are one hundred acres but we estimate it at more.

[Signatures.]

[Witnesses.]

Correct Translation.

T. E. Young,
Translator Native Department.

A True Copy of Original Receipt and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, January 12th, 1877.