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

Personal Claim of Te Moananui on the Fairburn Block

Personal Claim of Te Moananui on the Fairburn Block.

Received

by me the Moananui the sum of Twenty Pounds being for the final settlement

1854. 17 March.

of my claim to land at Maraetai—the land formerly bought by Mr. Fairburn (European)

Fairburn Block.

on the Puru and on the Manga Manga roa also the whole of the Wairoa block and the

Receipt for £20.

Tamaki and on all land whatsoever in the above named claims on this the seventeenth

Moananui’s claims.

day of March in the year of our Lord 1854.

(Signed) Moananui Kati Kati.

Witness—

(Signed) John White, Interpreter.

A True Transcript of Office Copies Receipts.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, February 10th, 1876.