[Translation.]
This Deed written on this twenty-second (22) day of October
in the year of our Lord 1857. 22 October.Manukau and Waikato District. one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven (1857) is a paper of the full
consent of us the chiefs and people of Ngatiteata whose names are affixed to
this document on behalf of ourselves our relatives and our descendants who may
be born after us entirely to surrender a portion of our land to Victoria the
Queen of England to the Kings or Queens who may succeed her for ever.
The principal names within the Block are Puketapu and Kauritutai. These are the
boundaries commencing at Papa o Tutauaki thence along the boundary of the laud
sold Boundaries. by us to the Queen in the Tatangarau creek thence to Te Rewarewa where
it crosses at Whakaronga and thence to Puketutu and on to the source of the
Tatangarau turning thence and running in a southerly direction to Kakaroa and Pa
Aronga turning thence and running inland to Waipapa to Ruahine to Te Pota and to
Opoua continuing on thence crossing at Waihakari in a straight line to Te Wharau
and to the waters of Manuka harbor and along the shore to Papaotutauaki.
There are two sections within this block of one hundred acres each one at the
Two reserves (100 acres each) at Parairai and Whakarongo for Ihaia Te
Manga and Aihepene Kaihau. wooded portion at Parairai, the other at the wooded portion at
Whakarongo. one section for Ihaia Te Manga the other section for Aihipene
Kaihau.
And in consideration of our consent entirely to give up this portion of our
land Victoria the Queen of England agrees to pay for our land the sum of Four
hundred pounds £400 Three hundred and thirty pounds £330 of these monies we have
this day received. Receipt for £330.
We have entirely and for ever given up this land to Victoria the Queen of
England to the Kings or Queens who may succeed her for ever with its streams
waters timber stones and all belonging to the said land absolutely and for ever.
And on the receipt of the said monies from Mr McLean though paid to us by the
hands of Mr. Searancke on this twenty-second day of October we hereunto affix
our names and marks.
And for the consent of the Queen of England on her behalf to all the conditions
of this Deed the name of Donald McLean Esquire Land Purchase Commissioner of New
Zealand has been affixed hereunto.
Signed for Donald McLean Esquire by—
William N. Searancke,
Dist. Commr. and
Surveyor.
Katipa.
Peti.
Totaia x his mark,
and 13 others.
Witnesses—
John Hobbs.
John White,
Interpreter, Land Purchase Dept.
True translation—
John
Rogan, D.C., for the Chief Commr.
June, 18, 1858.
A True Copy, of Original Deed and Translation.
H. Hanson
Turton.
Wellington,
November 3rd, 1874.