Translation.
Greytown,
9th November, 1870.
1870. 9 November.Wairarapa District.Wehave this day received a portion of the five per cents on our
block of land which we sold to the Government formerly, in the Wairarapa District,
the name of that block
makakahi. is Makakahi (or Manawatu) We have this day received the five per cents due
from the
Receipt for £100. [Five per cents.] date of the cession of the land to the 30th June 1869. The amount of five
per cents we have now received is one hundred pounds sterling, and the Government
will furnish us with the accounts of the pieces sold within that block up to that
time. Mr. Kemp
page 477Commissioner of the
Government has paid us these five per cents in the presence Mr. Wardell Resident
Magistrate of the Government of New Zealand at Wairarapa.
(Sd.) Wi Waka Rangiwhakaewa.
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Marakaia Tawaroa.
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Piripi Iharaira.
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Anaru Takitaki.
Witness—
Herbert S. Wardell, R. M.,
Wairarapa.
H. S. Byrn, Constable, Wairarapa District.
A. True Copy of Original Receipt and Translation.
Wellington,
January 4th, 1876.