1872. 29 November.Piako District.This Deed executed this Twenty ninth day of November in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy two Witnesseth that Whereas by a Deed bearing date Piako, Mohonui, and Te Hina. the sixteenth day of November 1857 We for ourselves and descendants parted with and sold to Her Majesty Victoria Queen of England her heirs, the Kings and Queens who may succeed her and her or their assigns for ever A piece of land the boundaries whereof are Te Hina Block.[500 acres.] set forth and described in the said deed and known as the Piako Piako Block.[19,500 acres.] Block containing by admeasurement Nineteen thousand five hundred (19500) acres more or less And that by a deed bearing date Twenty third day of April 1860 We for ourselves and our descendants parted with and sold to Her Majesty Queen of England her heirs the Kings and Queens who may succeed her and her or their assigns for ever a piece of land the boundaries whereof are set forth and described in the said Deed Mohonui Block.[2,580 acres.] and known as the Mohonui Block containing by admeasurement Two thousand five hundred and eighty (2580) acres more or less And that by a deed bearing date fourteenth day of December 1857 We for ourselves and descendants parted with and sold to Her Majesty Victoria Queen of England her heirs the Kings and Queens who may succeed her and her or their assigns for ever a piece of land the boundaries whereof are set forth and described in the said deed and known as the Hina Block containing by admeasurement five hundred (500) acres more or less. And that now a claim is set up by Tamihaua Tukere of Taupo an aboriginal native of New Zealand to a piece of land called Patuiwi these several pieces of land being contained within the boundaries of the Piako block aforesaid—And that a claim is set up by Te Paea Te Otatu of Taupo an aboriginal native of New Zealand to a piece of land called the Te Awapakiraha And that a claim is set up by Hemi Tahatika of Taupo an aboriginal native of New Zealand to a piece of land called Te Hohonga these several pieces of land being contained within the boundaries of the Mohonui block aforesaid And that a claim is now set up by Wikitoria Te Titihuia of Shortland an aboriginal native of New Zealand to Te Hina block aforesaid Now therefore We the undersigned natives for ourselves our relatives and our descendants have by signing this Deed under the shining sun of this day parted with sold and for ever transferred unto Victoria Queen of England her heirs the Kings and Queens who may succeed her and her or their assigns to hold for ever in consideration Receipt for £235. of the sum of two hundred & thirty five Pounds (£235 . 0 . 0) to us paid this day by Edward Walter Puckey Esquire Native Agent at The Thames—the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged—in final extinction of the rights to us belonged over these lands All the right title and interest of us the undersigned to these lands That is to say the Piako block the Mohonui Block and Te Hina block aforementioned And in Testimony of our consent to all the conditions of this deed We have hereunto subscribed our names and marks.