Translation.
Listen all men to this book of ours, Tautoru, Takahi, Te Rangimatanuku. We
dispose 1840. 28 January.Bay of Plenty District.Ngaio.Church of England mission. of a certain property to (Mr.) Wilson, for the Assembly of the Church
Missionaries (for the Church Missionary Society) to their children, to their
successors, to their relatives for ever, either to be occupied (by them) to be
sold or otherwise disposed of; the property and likewise all things growing
thereon and all things below (it). Now these are the boundaries of the property:
the line begins at the Ate, goes on to Tirohanga, to te Rua o nga Tamariki, from
thence to Hangaia from thence to Okakaina from thence to Papakanui and from thence
to Pakihi. Now these are the payments [2,500 acres.] Receipt. which have been received for that property, this indeed: 3 casks of
Tobacco, 300 Dollars, 100 blankets, 100 coats, 100 axes, 100 adzes, 100 hoes, 200
fish hooks, 100 scissors, 100 knives, 100 shirts, 100 gowns, 12 spades, 100 lbs.
soap, 24 frocks, 15 caps, 12 striped shirts, 24 prs. trowsers, 10 iron pots, 80
children's dresses, one Cow. We now subscribe our names and our marks of consent,
to this disposing of and this selling, on the twenty-eighth day of the month
January in the year of our Lord, One thousand Eight hundred and Forty.
[Signatures.]
[Witnesses.]