This Deed conveying land dated this day on the twenty-second 22 of the days of1855. 22 August.Wairarapa District. August in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five 1855 is a paper of the full and true consent of us the Chiefs and people of the tribe of Ngatikahungunu, whose names are hereunto attached, for us our relatives and our descendants hereafter to be born to fully and entirely give up a piece of our land to Victoria theTe Whiti. Queen of England and to all the Kings and Queens Her Successors for ever.

And for our consenting finally to give up this piece of our land Victoria the Queen of England on her part agrees to pay us One hundred and fifty pounds in money £150. Fifty pounds £50 of this sum were received by Ihaia te Makamairu, Kenehi and Henare Waimarama at Wellington on the 9th of December 1853 and the balance of One hundred pounds has been this day paid to us by Mr. Cooper. These are all the payments which we are to get for this land which we have this day entirely abandoned to the Queen of England.

The boundary begins at Kokomukahokotahi runs on to Te Arakariti, runs on toBoundaries. [640 acres.] Tamaitikiato, falls into Taueru, runs down the Taueru stream till it reaches Parikarearea, runs on to the Waikaha, runs on to Kumekumewahine, breaks off there runs on to Te Mauri, thence on to the Ruamahanga, breaks off there, follows the Ruamahanga stream to Te Whiro, runs on to Kerekererau, and on to Kokomukahokotahi, where it joins on to the commencement. If this land is less than a square mile—that is than six hundred and forty acres, 640—we will extend the boundaries until they include six hundred and forty 640 acres.