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Maori Deeds of Old Private Land Purchases in New Zealand, From the Year 1815 to 1840, with Pre-Emptive and Other Claims

Translation

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.