1873. 30 December.Coromandel District.This Deed made the thirtieth day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy three between Repiu Tokata, Reupena Tahura, Wiremu to Huia and Ereatara Tinirau, all of Mercury Bay, District of Coromandel Queens County in the Province of Rangihau no. 2286. Auckland Colony of New Zealand aboriginal Natives (hereinafter called the said vendors) of the one part and Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the other part, witnesseth page 437that in consideration of the sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds paid by Her said Majesty Queen Victoria to the said Vendors (the receipt whereof' is hereby acknowledged) They the said vendors do and each and every one of them doth hereby convey Receipt for £750. and assure unto her said Majesty Queen Victoria her successors and assigns (save and except as hereinafter mentioned) all that piece or parcel of land in Whitianga in the District of Coromandel in the said Province of Auckland and called by the name of "Rangihau Number 2286" and containing by admeasurement nine thousand one hundred and sixty two acres more or less, bounded towards the North by the Waiwawa Boundaries. [9,162 acres.] block, ten thousand and eighty seven links, then towards the West by other part of said Waiwawa block five thousand two hundred links, Four thousand one hundred and ninety nine links, one thousand three hundred and seventy links, Two thousand and fifty three links, and three hundred and eighteen links, on and towards the East by the Rangihau creek then on the North by a line eight hundred and twenty seven links, again on and towards the East by lines eleven hundred links, Two thousand one hundred and five links, Twelve hundred and thirty links, Eleven hundred and thirty seven links, six hundred and eighty four links, Two hundred and fifty three links, and three hundred and thirty seven links, then towards the North, by a line four hundred and seven then on the East by a line one hundred and seventy eight links, then on the North by lines one thousand four hundred and eighty five links, and six hundred and nineteen links, then on the South East by a line two hundred and thirty nine links, and by a line eleven hundred and seventeen links then by a stream on the West and North East then towards the South East by lines five hundred and twenty links, and one hundred and seventy two links, again on the North by a line three hundred and eighty nine links, again towards the East by lines nine hundred and fifty links, seven hundred and twenty links, one thousand fifty two links, six hundred and eighty four links, four hundred and sixty links, and two hundred and eighty one links, then toward the North by lines one thousand seven hundred and thirty nine links and six thousand two hundred and ninety links, to the top of a hill called Tanehua then by a line on the East to the top of a hill called Rurupuku, Eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy five links, then on and toward the South by lines one Hundred and eighty eight links, Two thousand eight hundred and twenty links, and one hundred and fifty five links, then on the West by a line five hundred and six links, again on the South by a line Two thousand three hundred and twenty five links, then on the South West by line eight hundred and four links and two thousand four hundred and sixty eight links, then on the South by a line five hundred and sixty six links, then towards the North West by lines, three hundred and seventy five links, and three hundred and thirty four links, then on the South by one hundred and sixty six links then on the North West by lines, two hundred and two links, and two hundred and twenty three links, then on the South by a line seven hundred and forty eight links, then on the West by lines three hundred and sixteen links, two hundred and eighty seven links, and four hundred and twenty one links, then on the North by a line five hundred and one links, then on the North West by a line three hundred links, then on the South by a line three thousand nine hundred and ninety links, then on the South West by a line eleven thousand two hundred and sixty three links, then by line on the South side twelve hundred and fifteen links, then on and towards the West side by the Waiwawa river to the point of commencement, as the same is delineated on the plan drawn hereon edged red, together with all the rights easements and appurtenances there to belonging and all deeds thereto relating and all other rights which the said vendors or any of them have or may have of in to or out of the said or parcel of land, To hold the same premises unto her said Majesty Queen Victoria her successors and assigns for ever subject nevertheless to the sale and grant of Subject to sale of timber to the mercury Bay Saw-Mill Company. the timber and bush in upon and about the said land and the demise of the said land made by a certain deed of grant and demise between the said vendors (therein called the said Lessors) of the one part and "The Mercury Bay Saw Mill Company Limited" of the other part bearing date the twenty seventh day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy three. In witness whereof the said parties thereto have hereuuto. subscribed their names the day and year first herein written.