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

[Translation.]

[Translation.]

This deed of sale made at Ngamotu on the second day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, is a true and perfect consenting on the part of us the chiefs and people of the Ngatiawa Tribe, to surrender for ever to Victoria, the Queen of England, a portion of our land at Queen Charlotte Sound, or to the Kings or Queens who may succeed her for ever and ever.

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And for this the giving of our consent to sell a portion of this our land, Victoria, the Queen of England, agrees on her part to pay us the sum of two hundred pounds (£200) in money, which we have this day received at the hands of Mr. McLean, this being the full and final payment for the portion of the land we have this day given over to the Queen.

The boundary to the North commences on the coast at a point called Te Karaka; it then takes an inland direction as far as Piripiri, from thence to Tokamaru, from thence to Iringatau, from thence to Wairau. It stops there. Then the boundary commences on the coast at Te Karaka, from thence to Waikawa, from thence to Ihumeone, from thence to Te Wera o Waitohi, from thence to Tukurehu, from thence to Kaipapu, from thence to the Mimi o Kupe. From thence the southern boundary bears an inland direction until it reaches Ta-rao Timarama, from thence to Otamau, from thence to Tuamarino, from thence to Pukakake, from thence to Wairau; here it finishes. The Wairau then becomes the boundary inland.

Thus have we entirely given over and surrendered this land to Queen Victoria, the Queen of England, or to the Kings or Queens who may succeed her hereafter, under the shining sun of the present day.

And having consented to all the conditions contained in this paper, we hereunto affix our names and marks. And the Queen of England having consented to all the conditions contained in this paper, Mr. McLean, the Governor of New Zealand's Land Commissioner, hereunto signs his name.

[Here follow the signatures.]