Tena koe e pono ana ta matou whakaaetanga ki Witireia hei kareti ma te 1848. 16 August.Porirua District. Pihopa ehara i te mea he tuku atu na matou hei kainga mo Witireia. te Pihopa otira mona mo nga Pihopa a muri ake nei e whakakapia ai tona turanga hei whakatupu i nga ritenga o Gift of land for a Native College. te whakapono ki a te Karaiti kia whaiho ai hei patutu kia ruru ai i nga hau hua noa o te ao, ara i te he. Heoti ano kua tumau rawha taua kainga hei Kareti ma nga Pihopa o te Hahi o Ingarangi. Heoti ano.

Greeting! It is a perfect consenting on our part that Witireia shall be given 1848. 16 August.Porirua District. up to the Bishop for a College.

We give it up not merely as a place for the Bishop for the time being, but in continuation Witireia. for those Bishops who shall follow and fill up his place, to the end that Gift of land for a Native College. Religion and faith in Christ may grow, and that it may be, as it were a shelter against uncertain storms that is against the evils of this world. This is the full and final giving up of that place, as a College for the Bishops of the Church of England.