Officer Administering the Government.
I,Sir GeorgeAlfred Arney,
the officer administering the Government of NewGovernor's consent. Zealand, do hereby at the request of Hemi Parai and Hori Ngapaka,
consent to the within written conveyance, by and with the advice of the
Executive Council, by the within-named Hemi Parai and Hori Ngapaka, to the
within-named William Fitzherhert, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington.
Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Alfred Arney, Knight, the
officer administering the Government in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same, at Wellington, this
twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, and
seventy-three.
Approved in Council,
Forster Goring,
Clerk of the Executive
Council.