Memorandum of agreement made this eighth day of June One thousand Eight hundred Enclosure 19. and Sixty Nine Between Raimona Whetu Native Chief of Ngatipare tribe of the District of Tauranga of the one part and Messrs. Whitaker and Russell of the City of Auckland Solicitors of the other part Whereby the said Raimona Te Whetu agrees to sell to the said Messrs. Whitaker and Russell, All that piece or parcel of laud situated in the District of Tauranga in the Province of Auckland in the Colony of New Zealand and containing Two hundred and Fifty Six acres of land more or less called Te Aukanapanapa Te Aukanapanapa. [256 acres.] on the Island of Matakana, Tauranga, bounded by Te Tuingara on the Worth side and on the South side by Te Aukanapanapa line and on the West side by [gap — reason: illegible] beach and at the back by a portion of the chief Te Moananui's land, at Matakana surveyed by Messrs. Gundry and Crapp and the said Messrs. Whitaker and Russell agree to purchase the said land as described and to pay to the said Raimoua te Whetu at the rate of Four shillings per acre in manner following, the sum of Five pounds sterling on signing this agreement and the balance on the execution of a conveyance for the said land and the said Raimona te Whetu further agrees to prosecute the claims for the said land through the Native Lands Court without loss of time and to hand over the Crown Grant for the said land to Messrs. Whitaker and Russell on the receipt of the same from the Government the said Messrs. Whitaker and Russell paying the expenses of the Crown Grant.