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

Tokatoka Block, Wairoa, Kaipara District

Tokatoka Block, Wairoa, Kaipara District.

1854. 24 August. Kaipara District.

He pukapuka

tuku whenua tenei i tuhituhia kei Akarana i tenei ra i te rua tekau

Tokatoka.

ma wha o nga ra o Akuhata i te tau o to tatou Ariki kotahi mano waru rau ma rima tekau ma wha (1854) Ko te whakaaetanga o te Uriohau o te Waiaruhe—kia hokona tetehi wahi o to matou whenua kia te Kuini Wikitoria o Ingarangi. Ko nga rohe enei—ka

Boundaries.

timata ki te awa o Hirakau ka haere i roto i te Wairoa ki te Awaiti ka mahue te awa ka anga ki roto i te Waiti ka rere Motu koroi ko te rohe o uta tenei ka rere Hikuika Matarauaruhe ka rere mai ki te Wairoa ki roto i te awa o Hiraku, ka mutu.
A no te mea kua whakaae matou ki te tuku i tenei wahi o to matou whenua ko Tokatoka kia te Kuini Wikitoria o Ingarangi e whakaae ana hoki te Kuini kia hoatu kia matou kia kotahi rau pauna moni he utu tuatahi mo taua whenua a te raumate ka ruritia te whenua ka whakaritea te utu whakamutunga mo taua whenua. Kua riro mai i a

Receipt for £100, first instalment.

matou nga pauna kotahi rau i te ringaringa o te Honiana tetehi kai whakarite whenua mo te Kawana o Nui Tireni koia matou ka whakaae ka tuhituhi i o matou ingoa.

( Signed) Manukau.
" Hohaia.
" Hone Waiti.
" Na paraone Rangi.

( Signed) Matitikuha.
" Hone Watakauhi x.
" Rehana.
" Hamahona.

Ko nga Kai Titiro—

( Signed) John Grant Johnson, District Commissioner.
John White, Interpreter.

True Copy of original Deed.

( Signed) Donald McLean,
Chief Commissioner.

10

th May

, 1856.