1872. 17 December.Coromandel District. This Deed made the seventeenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and seventy two Between Miriama Pehi Pukukauri Peneamene Tanui Hori Kerei Tuokioki and Matene Pehi all of Mercury Bay in the Province of Auckland and Colony of New Zealand Te Karo Or Tairua No. I. Aboriginal Natives (hereinafter called the said Venders of the one part and Her Majesty Queen Victoria of the other part Witnesseth that in consideration the sum of one hundred pounds sterling paid by her said Subject to grant of timber to John Hawakins Graham. Majesty Queen Victoria to the said Vendors (the receipt whereof they and each of them doth hereby acknowledge they the said Vendors Do each and every of them Doth hereby convey and assure unto her said Majesty Queen Victoria, Her Successors and Assigns (save and except as herein after mentioned All that piece or parcel of land containing by admeasurement one thousand two hundred and seventy acres more or less situate at or near Tairua in the Receipt for £100. [1,270 acres.] Bay of Plenty Queen's County in the province and Colony aforesaid and called or known as Tairua block the several boundaries of which said piece or parcel of land and the several measurements of the boundary lines thereof are particularly shewn and set out on the plan of the piece of land hereby conveyed drawn hereon. Together with all the rights easements members and appurtenances thereto 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 same piece of land. To hold the same premises unto Her said Majesty Queen Victoria her successor and assigns for ever Subject nevertheless to the sale and grant of the Timber and trees on the said land and the demise of the said land made by a certain deed of grant and demise between the said Grantors of the one part and John Hawkins Graham therein described) of the other part bearing date the sixteenth day of December One thousand eight hundred and seventy two In Witness whereof the said parties hereto have subscribed their names.