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A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.

No. 11. — Copy of Deed of Release signed by the Ngatiawa Natives, on relinquishment of their claims to Land at Whakatu (Nelson), Waimea, Moutere, Riwaka, Taitapu (Massacre Bay), excepting their Pas, Cultivations, and Burial-Places, to be the New Zealand Company

No. 11.
Copy of Deed of Release signed by the Ngatiawa Natives, on relinquishment of their claims to Land at Whakatu (Nelson), Waimea, Moutere, Riwaka, Taitapu (Massacre Bay), excepting their Pas, Cultivations, and Burial-Places, to be the New Zealand Company.

Kua homai ki a matou i te rua te kan ma wha a nga ra o Akuhata i te tan kotahi mano e waru ran e wha tekau ma wha e nga Kai Whakariterite o te Whakaminenga o Nui Tireni i Ranana he mea utu mai e Wiremu Wekepiri (William Wakefield) e te kai mahi o taua Whakaminenga, kotahi ran pauns moni, he tino utunga, he tino whakaritenga, he wakamahuetanga rawatanga i to matou papa katoa, i o matou wahi katoa i roto i o matou whenua katoa, kua tuhituhia ki roto i te pukapuka, kua whakapiria ki tenei nei, ara ko nga wahi katoa, i Whakatu, i Waimea, i Te Moutere, i Motueka, i Riwaka i Te Taitapu (Massacre Bay), i Nui Tireni, ko nga pa ia ko nga Ngakinga, ko nga Wahi Tapu, ko nga wahi rongoa anake e toe ki a matou, a ka wakaae matou kia tuhia e matou o maton ingoa ki tetahi pukapuka tuku whenua a muri nei, me a kiia mai ki a tuhia ki nga Kai Wakariterite o taua Wakaminenga i o matou wahi katoa i roto i ana wenua, heoti ano nga wahi e waiho mo matou, ko nga wahi kua korerotia i mua.

Ko nga ingoa enei o nga kai titiro i te tuhinga i nga ingoa.

William Spain,
Commissioner.
George Clarke, Jun.

Protector of Aborigines.

Henry F. Butt,

Curate of Nelson.

Donald Sinclair,
Chief Police Magistrate and Govt. Representative.

A. McDonald,

Manager, Union Bank, Nelson.

Heremaia Te Matene, tona + tohu.
Tamati Wakapakeke, tona. + tohu.
Karina Te Hotete, tona + tohu.
Hemarama Te Ngako, tona + tohu.

On behalf of the remaining Ngatiawa Natives,

George Clarke, Jun.,

Protector of Aborigines.

Note.—The translation of the two last deeds is substantially the same as the first one.