Translation.
This Deed entered into on the Twenty first of October in the
year 1853 the consenting 1853. 21 October. of Te Hira Kawau and the Chiefs of the Ngatiwhatua the consenting also
of the Queen Auckland District. of England on her part now I Te Hira the owner of the Land described ii
this Deed I do agree to sell this Land to Queen Victoria for the sum of £100 now
given to me for Ohinerau this I give up and make over to Victoria Queen of England and her Heirs
and Successors for ever this Land and all thereto belonging. The Boundaries are
these, On the South Boundaries by the Tamaki road, on the East by the trench near the road, thence on
in a direct line to a Manuka tree and to the creek, on the North by the above
creek called Ohinerau, on the West by Mr. Graham's (Farm).
A sketch of this Land is on the other side.
Witness my name—
(Signed) Te Hira Kawau.
Witness—
(Signed) James Baber, Draftsman, Survey
Office
Received by me the One hundred Pounds as agreed to in this
Deed hence my
Receipt for £100 writing this my name on the Twenty first of October in the year of our
Lord One Thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
(Signed) Te Hira Kawau.
Witness—
(Signed) James Baber, Draftsman, Survey
Office,
Auckland
A true translation.
John White, Interpreter
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson Turton
Wellington,
September 7th, 1874.