Deeds—No. 240.
Great Barrier Island (Land on), Auckland District.
Heoi kua oti i a matou te hurihuri te mihi te poroporoake te tino tuku rawa i tenei Kainga o a matou tipuna tuku iho i a matou me ona awa me ona manga me ona roto me ona wai me ona rakau me ona otaota me ona kohatu me ona wahi parae me ona wahi ataahua me ona wahi kino me nga mea katoa ki runga ranei o te whenua ki raro ranei o te whenua me nga aha noa iho o taua whenua ka oti rawa i a matou te tino tuku rawa atu i tenei ra e whiti nei kia Wikitoria te Kuini o Ingarangi ki nga Kingi Kuini ranei o muri iho i a ia a ake tonu atu.
A mo to matou whakaaetanga ki nga tikanga katoa o roto i tenei Pukapuka ka tuhia iho e matou o matou ingoa me o matou tohu.
A mo te whakaaetanga o te Kuini o Ingarangi mona ki nga tikanga katoa o roto i tenei Pukapuka ka tuhia iho e te Makarini te Kai whakarite whenua o te Kawana o Nui Tireni tona ingoa.
Tamati Waka Tarewa.
Wiremu Hopihona.
te retimana ngatipou katoa.
Nga Kai titiro ki enei homaitanga utu me
enei tuhinga ingoa—
C. O. Davis, Interpreter,
Auckland.Elwin B. Dickson, B.A.
Translation.
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.
Wellington, January 6th, 1875.