Translation.
Listen all people to this writing of ours, from Pi, Kauwau,
Okio, by all of us was 1839. 5 February.Kiripaka. affixed our signatures to this deed. We let go and sell to Mr. Ford a
piece of land at Waikari. Tokiringa, his timber land is from us. Now the
boundaries are these. The S. H. Ford. [100 acres.] Pokapoka Kauri is the beginning, going up to the Puketapu, runs along
above the Kaweka, stops at the Orohanga, comes forward and runs down to the Motu
Kaikatoa, losing itself in the Wai-o-Tokiringa, thence it runs on to the mark of
Puninga, goes on to Wangaruru road and is lost in the Kiripaka.
Now the payments received by us for this land are these; Seven Pounds Cash, Receipt. Fourteen Blankets, Six Spades, Six Axes.
Therefore we sign our names and place our mark to this letting go and selling on
the 5th day of February, 1839.
[Witnesses.]
[Signatures.]
Henry Tacy Kemp.
A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Translation.No. 300a.O.L.C.
Wellington,
23rd April, 1879.
H. Hanson
Turton.