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Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume One

(Enclosure 9 in No. 466.)

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(Enclosure 9 in No. 466.)

Memorandum of Agreement make this Nineteenth day of November, One Thousand Eight hundred and Sixty Eight Enclosure 9. between Hamiora Tu Native Chief of the District of Tauranga in the Province of Auckland, in the Colony of New Zealand of the one part and Messrs. Whitaker and Russell, Solicitors of the City of Auckland of the other part, Whereby the said Hamiora Tu agrees to sell to the said Messrs. Whitaker and Russell, All that piece or parcel of land situated on the Island of Matakana in the District of Tauranga in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand and known by Kopuatete and Hemonui. [350 acres.] the name of Kopuatete and Hemonui and containing three hundred and fifty acres more or less.

And the Messrs. Whitaker and Russell agree to purchase the said land and to pay to the said Hamiora Tu at the rate of Four Shillings p. acre in manner following, the sum Twenty seven pounds to be paid on signing this agreement and the balance on the execution of a conveyance of the said land And the said Hamiora Tu further agrees to have the said land surveyed without loss of time at his cost.

Should the said land when surveyed not turn out to contain the quantity specified, the said Hamiora Tu agrees to make up the deficiency by giving other land in lieu thereof.

Signed this Nineteenth day of November, One Thousand Eight hundred and Sixty Eight.

Hamiora Tu.

In the presence of—

Wy. Ashcroft.

I hereby certify that I have read over the above agreement to Hamiora Tu and that he fully understands its contents.

Richard de Thierry,
Licensed Interpreter.

Receipt for £27. Received the sum of Twenty Seven Pounds Stg. on a/c.

Hamiora Tu.

Auckland, 19 Novr, 1868.

Witness—

R. de Thierry, L.I.

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