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Translation.
This Deed entered into on the eighteenth day of July in the
year One thousand eight hundred and fifty three the consenting of the Chiefs
signing below the owners of the 1853. 18 July.Ngarurunui. Land described in this Deed do agree to sell this Land to Queen Victoria
for the sum of One hundred pounds given now into our hands for this we give and
let to Victoria Queen of England and Her Heirs for ever this Land and all
thereto belonging, the boundaries are these, on the West by the line of Rama
Rama and on to the hole dug Boundaries. by Ihaka turning and on to the ridge turning to the North on into the
Forest until it Joins the boundary of Waihoehoe.
A sketch of this Land is on the other side.
Witness our names—
Hohaia.
Mohi.
Raniera.
Retimana.
Ngaki.
Wiremu
Harihona.
Ihaka Tarahanga.
Hamiora.
Ihaka.
Hone
Punipi.
Herewini.
Karaka.
Te Nga x his mark.
Witness—
John Grant Johnson, Interpreter.
Received by us the Hundred Pounds being the owners of the Land as agreed to inRece i for £100. this Deed hence our now writing these our names on this the Eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty three.Retimana.
Mohi.
Eredrick.
Titoko.
Herewini.
Karaka.
Erutara.
Poharama.
Hohania.
Ihaka.
Wiremu
Harihona.
Te Nga x his mark.
Witness—
John Grant Johnson, Interpreter.
A true translation.
(Signed) John White, Interpreter.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
Wellington, September 8th, 1874.