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

[Translation.]

[Translation.]

This paper or deed of sale, written on this day, on the seventh of the days of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, is a paper of the full consent and full and true sale by us whose names are affixed to this paper wherein we fully and finally transfer all our lands at "Whenuakura, thence to the Matau, and continuing on to Powhara, and thence to Motupipi, to Victoria, the Queen of England, or to the King or Queens who may succeed her for ever and ever.

And having fully and entirely sold and transferred all these lands, the Queen of England on her part agrees to pay us in money, one hundred and fifty pounds (£150 0s. 0d.) which money has been paid to us on this day by Mr. McLean. -

[Here follow the signatures.]