Translation.
1854. 4 January.This Deed entered into on the 4th of January in the year 1854
being the consent of Auckland District. Ngatai and Hori Chiefs of the Ngati Hua and Ngati paoa the consent also
of the Queen of England on her part Now Ngatai and Hori the owners of the land
described Ponui Island. in this deed do now agree to sell this land to Queen Victoria for the
sum of £25 given now to Ngatai and Hori for this we give up and make over to
Victoria the Queen of England and her heirs and successors for ever this land
and all thereto belonging the boundaries being these being the whole of that
Island called Ponui this being the last and Island to be vacated by Natives final payment. Ngatai agrees to take all pigs from the Island of Ponui
to his own lands and to give up his cultivation and dispose of his Potatoe crop
to Europeans, so that the Island of Ponui be left solely to Europeans.
(Signed) Witness our names—
Na Nga Tai.
Hori Pokai.
Witnesses—
(Signed) John White, Interpreter
C. H. Macintosh, Surveyor
Receipt for £25, last instalment Received by us the £25 as agreed to in this Deed hence our signing these
our names on this the 4th of January in the year of Our Lord 1854.
(Signed) Na Nga Tai.
Hori Pokai.
Witnesses—
(Signed) John White, Interpreter.
C. H. Macintosh, Surveyor
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson Turton
Wellington,
September 7th, 1874.