1840. 20 October.Auckland District.Listen all people to this Book written by Kawau, Tinana, Reweti Tamaki and other Chiefs of the (tribe) Ngatiwhatua on the one side by George Clarke Protector of the Aborigines for the Queen of England on the other side they have consented to give up Mataharehare, Opou, and Whau. to sell a portion of land to the Queen of England for ever and ever (for whatever purposes Her Majesty may deem right). The Boundary of the said piece of Land we have Boundaries. [3,000 acres.] now sold is this—The Boundary to the North is the River of the Waitemata from the River named Mataharehare reaching the River called Opou and from the extremity of Opou in a straight line to Maunga Wau up to the rise or extremity of Mataharehare and from the extremity of Mataharehare up to the River of Waitemata the extent of this piece of land is this Three Thousand acres more or less. The payment for the said Receipt for £50 and goods. Land is this Fifty Blankets, Fifty Pounds of Money, Twenty trowsers, Twenty shirts, Ten waistcoats, Ten caps, Four Casks of Tobacco One box of pipes One hundred yards of gown pieces Ten iron pots One bag of sugar One bag of Flour Twenty Hatchets. This writing with our signatures in this book is true signed by us on the Twentieth day of October in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty of our Lord.