Translation.
1856. 27 December.Auckland District.This Deed of Sale conveying Land written on this the twenty
seventh 27 day of December in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty six is a Deed of the full and unreserved assent of us the Chiefs and
People of Ngatimaru and Ngatiwai Land On Great Barrier Island. whose names are hereunto attached on behalf of ourselves our relations
and descendants born after us to give up and make over a portion of our Land to
Victoria the Queen of England and to the Kings or Queens her successors for ever
and ever.
And in consideration of our full consent to sell this piece of our Land
Victoria the Queen of England agrees on her part to pay us the Sum of Three
Hundred Pounds Receipt for £200. £300 once told. Of this amount we have received Two hundred Pounds £200
on this day from Donald MacLean Esquire. The third 3rd hundred Pounds £100 is to
be paid to us in the month of June in the year One thousand eight hundred and
fifty seven 1857.
Boundaries. The boundaries of the Land are these. Commencing at Matahoroa on the Sea
Coast at the Land formerly sold to Messrs. Whitaker and Du Moulin thence running
along the Sea Coast to Whakatautuna thence on to Harataunga and as far as the
Whangapoua stream. This is the termination on the Eastern Coast. On the Western
Coast it commences at Whangati at the Land bought formerly by Messrs. Whitaker
and Du Moulin running along the Sea Coast to Kohatupaopao and to Parahake until
it reaches Akatarere. There it ends. The boundary on the South is at the Land
bought by Messrs. Whitaker and Du Moulin. The boundary on the North is at the
Land which was bought by the Company of Europeans Mr. Whitaker being the
Attorney for the said Land.
Now we have for ever given up and wept over and bidden farewell to and
transferred this Land which has descended to us from our ancestors with its
streams and its rivers and its lakes and its waters and its trees and its
pastures and its minerals and its level spots with its fertile spots and its
barren places with all above the said Land and all below the said Land and with
all appertaining to the said Land we have now entirely given up under the
shining sun of this day to Victoria the Queen of England or to the Kings or
Queens her successors for ever and ever.
And in testimony of our consent to all the conditions contained in this Deed we
have hereunto affixed our names and marks.
And in testimony of the consent of the Queen of England to all the conditions
contained in this Deed Donald MacLean Esquire Land Commissioner of the Governor
of New Zealand has hereto affixed his name.
(Signed) Tamati Waka Tarewa.
Wiremu Hopihona.
Te Retimona (Ngatipou katoa).
Witnesses to these payments and signatures—
(Signed) C. O. Davis, Interpreter,
Auckland.
Elwin B. Dickson, B.A.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson
Turton.
Wellington,
January 6th, 1875.
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