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

[Deed Receipts—No. 75.]

Deed Receipts—No. 75.

Waiuku Block (Rawhitiroa), Manukau District.

Waiuku, Tihema 23, 1855.

Kua riro

mai i a matou nga pauna kotahi rau he whakarite i nga pounamu e rua

1855. 23 December.

Waiuku Block.

i whakaaetia e te Makarini mo Rawhitiroa he wahi tapu i roto i te wahi whenua i tukua

Rawhitiroa.

ki a te Kuini ki Waiuku.

Receipt for £100.

Na Kepa Katipa.
Na te Katipa Awarahi.

witness

Thos. Williamson.
John Grant Johnson, Commissioner, L.P.D.

Waiuku, 23 December, 1855.

Waiuku Block.

We have received

the sum of Fifty pounds in lieu of the third Greenstone Mere

Rangitahi.

promised for our Reserve or sacred place at Rangitahi. This our last claim upon

Receipt for £50.

this portion of land which we now entirely give up to the Queen of England. This is the last payment for the land in the Waiuku purchase. The only Reserves for ourselves are those specified in the Deed of Waiuku.

(Signed) Katipa.

Witness to payment—

(Signed) James Greenhill.
C. P. O’Rafferty.

A True Translation.

Donald McLean,
Chief Commissioner.

27 March, 1856.

A True Copy of Original Receipts and Translations.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, August 16th, 1875.