Tenei Pukapuka i tuhituhia i tenei tuarima o nga ra o Akuhata i te tau o to tatau 1859. 5 August.Auckland District. Ariki 1859 he pukapuka tino hoatu tino tuku whakaoti atu na matau na nga Rangatira me nga tangata o Ngatiwhatua nona nga ingoa e mau i raro nei a hei whakaatu tenei Tokapurewha. pukapuka mo matou mo o matou whanaunga mo o matou uri mo te tuhituhinga o o matou ingoa i te ra e whiti nei na kua tino hoatu tenei kua tino tukua rawatia atu tenei kia Wiktoria Kuini o Ingarini ki ona uri ki nga Kingi Kuini hoki o muri i a ia ki a ratou hoki e whakarite ai ake tonu atu taua wahi whenua katoa kei Tokapurewha e 9 acres. iwa eka tona nui, neke ake ranei neke iho ranei koia tena kua oti nei te ruri te pou ki te whenua a e mau nei hoki tona whakaahua kei te taha o tenei pukapuka. Ko nga Conditions. [For a battery.] tikanga enei e tukua atu nei tenei whenua e matou me pupuri e te Kawanatanga hei turanga pa hoia hei whakanohoanga pu, aha, hei tiaki mo te wahapu kei tomokia e tetahi hoa whawhai a ki te mutu te pupuri a te Kawanatanga hei pera heoi kaua e tukua ki tetahi tangata engari me hoki mai ano ki a matou. Na i runga i enei tikanga ka tukua noatia atu nei e matou te wahi whenua i korerotia ake nei kaua he utu e homai. A tenei ano hoki te whakaaetia atu nei e matou kia mahia te huarahi hei haerenga atu ki taua wahi whenua ka tukua atu nei kia haere taua huarahi i runga i to matou whenua i Orakei ko te whanui kia kotahi tini (chain) a ko te whenua mo taua huarahi tenei te tukua peratia atu nei ki a te Kuini e matou ake tonu atu.

This Deed written on this Fifth day of August in the year of our Lord 1859 is a full 1859. 5 August.Auckland District. conveyance and surrender by us the chiefs and people of Ngatiwhatua whose names are hereto subscribed and witnesseth that on behalf of ourselves our relatives and descendants we have by signing this Deed under the shining sun of this day parted with and Tokapurewha. for ever transferred unto Victoria Queen of England Her Heirs the Kings and Queens who may succeed Her and Her and their assigns for ever All that piece of land situated at Tokapurewha and containing nine acres more or less as the same has been marked off 9 acres. upon the ground and as it is shewn upon the plan of the said land annexed to this Deed. The conditions upon which we surrender this land are these, that it is to be held Conditions. [For a battery.] by the Government for purposes of military defence and that in the event of the Government ceasing to require it for such purposes of military defence it shall not be disposed of to private individuals but shall revert to us. Upon which conditions we hereby voluntarily surrender the aforesaid piece of land without receiving any payment for the same, and we hereby also consent that a road one chain wide shall be made through our land at Orakei to communicate with the land ceded by us as aforesaid and the land which may be required for the formation of such road is in like manner hereby ceded by us to the Queen for ever.