Translation.
This Deed entered into on the thirteenth day of July in the
year One Thousand Eight
1853. 13 July. Hundred and fifty-three, the consenting of us the Chiefs of the Akitai
and Uriika Tribes,
Auckland District. also the consenting of the Queen of England for herself, Now we the
owners of the Land described in this Deed agree to sell to Queen Victoria for
the sum of £30 now
Mangaripa. given to us, wherefore we now give and make over to Victoria Queen of
England and her Heirs for ever all this Land and all thereto belonging. The
Boundaries are these,
Boundaries On the West by the Surveyor's line on the Ahu, on the North coming down
from te Ahu in a straight line entering the Forest and continuing in a direct
line until it cuts the Mangaripa creek at Pokapu near the cultivation of Roka
going into the creek and continuing in the same until cut by the Eastern
Boundary, the Boundary on the East is the line as cut by the Government
Surveyors following the same on in a direct line
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until it cuts the creek forming the Northern Boundary
on the South it joins Mr. Abracham's Farm as defined to him by the Government
Survey of the same. Should any one make a claim to this Land we agree to satisfy
him or them.
A sketch of this land is on the other side.
Witness our names—
(Signed) Hunia Te Nawe.
Ihaka Tarahau.
(Signed) Hemi Te Nohi.
Te Rou.
Witness—
(Signed) John White, Interpreter
Patrick T. Hogan, Draftsman, Survey Office
Receipt for £30 Received by us the Sum of £30 as agreed to in this Deed hence our now
writing these our names on this the thirteenth day of July in the year of our
Lord 1853.
(Signed) Hunia Te Nawe.
Ihaka Tarahau.
(Signed) Hemi Te Nohi.
Te Hou.
Witness—
(Signed) John White, Interpreter
Patrick T. Hogan, Draftsman, Survey Office
A true translation.
John White, Interpreter
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson
Turton.
Wellington,
December 22nd, 1874.