Translation.
1854. 6 July.
I have received
this sixth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundredWhaingaroa.
and fifty four (1854) the sum of Forty (£40) pounds once told as a payment for allReceipt for £40
my claims to land in the Whaingaroa District both for those which have been sold toTakarei's claims
the Queen and those which have not and this shall be my last demand upon those claims for ever.And on the receipt of those monies I hereby acknowledge these lands to be the property of the Queen with their Timber Streams Minerals and all thereunto appertaining and in testimony thereof we hereunto affix our names and marks.
Na Takerei te rau
Na te Aho
Na te Karaka Tukapea
Witnesses—
John P. Russell, Settler, Wairarapa
H. T. Kemp, J.P.
A True Copy of Original-Receipt and Translation.
Wellington August. 3rd 1875.