Kua riro mai i a matou inaianei i tenei ra i te (21) rua tekau ma tahi o nga ra o Hune Piako District. i te tau o to tatou Ariki kotahi mauo e waru rau e rima tekau ma wha (1854) kotahi te rau pauna erim a tekau (£150) hetutu timatanga tenei na te Makarini i homai mo tetahi Arohaki. whenua o matoukei Piako e takoto ana tona ingoa ko Arohaki. Receipt for £150 first instalment

Ko nga rohe anei ka timata ki Waikaka ka haere te rohe ki runga ki Mangawhero ka hoki i konei (ka kapea a Mangawhero ki waho) ka haere Tikapu ka haere mai i reira Boundaries. Pukenui ka haere mai i Pakenui—a te Heru ka hoki i konei ka rere mai Tikou heoi ano ka marere ki te awa o Piako—ko te awa o Piako, te rohe ki tatahi.

We have received on this 21 day of June in the year of Our Lord 1854 the sum of 1854. 21 June. £150 being the first instalment paid to us by Mr. McLean for certain land of ours Arohaki. at Piako called Arohaki. Receipt for £150, first instalment

These are the boundaries: Commencing at Waikaka thence to Mangawhero here it turns back leaving Mangawhero out thence to Tikapu thence to Pukenui thence to Te Heru it goes back from here and on to Tikou thence to the Piako river which is Boundaries. the boundary to the shore.