Translation.
Listen all men to this book of ours of Wai of Huarahi
&c. &c., of ours who hereunto
1836. 21 May.
Mangakahia.write our marks and our names. We let go and sell to
Mr. Charles Baker a piece of land
of Mangakahia for him for his children for ever to sell or to do as he pleases
with
Charles Baker. [5,000
acres.]what is above or below the said land. The boundary is this. On the eminence
of Maunga Kowatu thence descending to Kaitaru, thence to One thence to Parakao
thence turning along Maungatipa thence down to the Water of Rauhuia thence to the
Hauera thence to Toretoretahi thence down to the river of Mangakahia thence across
to the entrance of Hikurangi thence to the entrance of Mangaroa thence across the
fern to the Hamingi thence ascend to the Tarakiekie thence to Ruahini thence to
Maunga Kowatu.
The payment was this, Fifty Blankets two casks of Tobacco, five hundred Pipes,
Receipt.twenty pounds in Money, eighteen Spades, Sixteen Hoes, twelve Iron Pots,
twelve Axes, twenty-four Knives, thirty-six Combs, twelve Plane Irons, Six Gowns,
twenty Handkerchiefs, Sixteen Shirts, Six trousers, five hundred fish hooks, three
Saws, four Cow Calves.
Therefore we write our marks and our names to this giving up, to this sale, on
the twenty-first day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
[Witnesses.]
[Signatures.]
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation. No. 255b.O.L.C.
H. Hanson
Turton.
Wellington, 13th
February,1879.