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

Native Gift of School Land (To Bishop Of Waiapu) at Waehengahika, Poverty Bay

Native Gift of School Land (To Bishop Of Waiapu) at Waehengahika, Poverty Bay.

Kia

rongo

mai nga tangata katoa He tuku tenei na matou na Te

Whanair

a Taupara

1857. 9 April. Poverty Bay District.

i te whenua e korerotia i raro nei ko tona ahua hoki e noho nei kua oti te ruri te tuhituhi ki tenei pukapuka ki te Kuini o Ingarani kia whakapumautia ai e ia ki te

Waerengahika.

Pihopa o tenei wahi a Nu Tireni ki te Minita o Waerengahika ki te Kai whakaako maori o Waerengahika ki etahi atu hoki o nga tangata maori o te Whanau a Taupara kia tokorua kia maha atu ranei kia puritia kia tiakina e ratou hei kainga pumau mo te minita mo te Kura o nga tangata maori i runga i te tikanga o te Hahi o Ingarani. Na ko nga kaha enei o te kainga kei

HuriMtahawai

ka tika atu ki Otarewa me te motu

Boundaries.

ngahere ka ngaro mai ki roto otira ko nga rakau anake ka tika atu i te taha o te wai o Makakahi ka haereki te Umuinanga kiTutaenui ka tika ki te Kahika kotahi ki Motumanawawai ka haere ki te Mataaniho kei konei te poupoutanga mai ki Hurikitahawai.

No te iwa o nga ra 0 Aperira no te tau kotahi mano e waru rau e rima tekau ma whitu i tuhituhia ai tenei pukapuka i tuhituhia ki Waerengahika.

Tenei hold o matou ingoa e noho nei.
Henare Kepa-Ruru.
Na Wi Hearonga,
na Hamiora Matenga.
mo te ngo u tatata.
Hirini Wai ariki.
Poi hipi te;pohe.
Hohua papa hiwa.
ti moti ra ngi atea.
Riria;te mau aranui
Wi harapata.
Pa Paora Matuakore.
Manahi komiro x.
Raharuhi haua i tuhia e riria.
Katarina taiuru.

I kitea te tuhituhinga o enei ingoa e maua—

William Williams.
William Leonard Williams.

I kitea e maua te tuhituhinga o te ingoa o Wi Harapata—

William Leonard Williams.
Charles P. Baker.

The signatures

to

this Deed have been acknowledged

to me

by the individuals

Certificate.

whose names

are

thereto—the words

.—"otira ko nga rakau anake

having been first inserted in the twenty second line at their request this twelfth day of May in the year

one

thousand eight hundred and fifty seven

.

Herbert s. Wardell.