Translation.
1853. 17 June.Pukekohe No. II.This agreement entered into by Moses, Hone te Mutu, Pepene te
Tihi and all the Akitai Tribe being the final settlement and giving up all right
and title to Pukekohe or claim thereto whatsoever. The following being the
Boundaries agreed to—Beginning at the post at Rangiwhiri and going on in the
line of Mr. Bailey on Nga Puketurua and Puketarakihi entering the forest and on
to Tutaenui then going in a Westerly direction Boundaries. until it cuts the Northern Boundary of Tirikohua to the second hole then
going on to the West entering the line coming from Ahu a te Ruarangi at the
Manukau to the long road to Waikato, is given up to the Queen of England and her
heirs for ever, for this reason this agreement has been entered into on this the
seventeenth day of June in the year 1853.
Taikehu Reserve. That portion of Pukekohe called Te Awa nui o Taikehu is reserved for us
and is encircled by a line on the plan annexed. The payment to us for our
consenting to these Receipt for £200. terms (above specified) is Two hundred pounds now given into our hands
on this the seventeenth day of June in the year 1853.
Ihaka Takaanini.
te
Raihi.
Hone te Muhu.
Agreement signed in the presence of—
Patrick J. Hogan.
John Grant
Johnson, Interpreter.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson
Turton.
Wellington,
September 10th, 1874.