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Deeds—No. 382.
Ohuka No. 2,906 Block, Hauraki District.
This Deed made the twelfth day of September one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-four 1874. 12 September.Hauraki District. between Piniha Pumoko, Hoani Toaranawhea and Hohepa Toa all of the
District of Hauraki in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand
aboriginal Ohuka No. 2906. natives (hereinafter called the vendors) of the one part and Her Majesty
Queen Victoria of the other part, witnesseth, that in consideration of the sum
of Two hundred and ninety-seven pounds paid by Her Majesty Queen Victoria to the
said vendors (the Receipt for £297. receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) They the said vendors do hereby
convey and assure unto Her Majesty Queen Victoria, All that piece or parcel of
land in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand containing by
admeasurement one thousand eight hundred acres more or less and called or known
by the name of Ohuka No. 2906 situated in the District of Hauraki in —— County,
Bounded on or towards the North Boundaries. by the Apakura River, by lines two hundred and eighty three links and
one thousand [1,800 acres.] links, thence by the Oneura Creek, and again by lines one hundred links,
two hundred and forty three links, four hundred and twenty six links, four
hundred and sixty five links, four hundred and forty links, five hundred and
eighty one links and one hundred and eighteen links on or towards the East by
the Tairua River on or towards the South page 526.gif)
by the Ohuka Creek, by lines one hundred and fifty
six links, eight hundred and twenty five links, six hundred and sixty two links,
eighty one links and seventy two links and by the Kohirahi Creek and on or
towards the West by the Apakura River, as the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan drawn in the margin hereof edged red, with all the rights
and appurtenances thereto belonging, To hold the same unto Her Majesty Queen
Victoria her successors and assigns for ever. In witness whereof the said
parties have hereunto subscribed their names.
by the Ohuka Creek, by lines one hundred and fifty
six links, eight hundred and twenty five links, six hundred and sixty two links,
eighty one links and seventy two links and by the Kohirahi Creek and on or
towards the West by the Apakura River, as the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan drawn in the margin hereof edged red, with all the rights
and appurtenances thereto belonging, To hold the same unto Her Majesty Queen
Victoria her successors and assigns for ever. In witness whereof the said
parties have hereunto subscribed their names.
Piniha Pumuko.
Hoani
Toaranawhea.
Hohepa Toa.
Signed by the said Piniha Pumuko, Hoani Toaranawhea and Hohepa Toa in the presence of us—
J. W. R. Guilding, Licensed
Interpreter, Shortland.
Gerald O'Halloran, Land Agent, Shortland.
[Declaration of John William Richard Guilding]
Declaration of J. W. R.
Guilding.I, John William Richard
Guilding, of Shortland, in the Province of Auckland, in New
Zealand, a duly authorized Interpreter under "The Native Lands Act, 1873," do
solemnly and sincerely declare—
| 1. | That I was present together with Gerald O'Halloran, of Shortland, in the Province of Auckland aforesaid, a male adult, and did see Piniha Pumoko, Hoani Toaranawhea, and Hohepa Toa, named and described in the within-written deed, duly sign and execute the same. |
| 2. | That the names Piniha Pumoko, Hoani Toaranawhea, and Hohepa Toa thereto subscribed are of the proper handwriting of the said Piniha Pumoko, Hoani Toaranawhea, and Hohepa Toa. |
| 3. | That before the execution of the said Deed by the said Piniha Pumoko, Hoani Toaranawhea, and Hohepa Toa I did translate the same into the Maori language, and that my translation thereof was correct and was perfectly understood by the said Piniha Pumoko, Hoani Toaranawhea, and Hohepa Toa. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace Act, 1866." |
Declared at Thames in the said Province this fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, before me—
E. W. Puckey,
A
Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.
4117d. Registration. Received for Registration at 10 a.m., 16 Nov., 1874. (l.s.)
M. Hamilton,
Dep. Registrar.
A True Copy of Original Deed, Declaration, and Endorsement.
Wellington, October 25th, 1875.