[ko te tohutoro i roto i te reo Māori]
Translation.
We have received this Eleventh day of November One thousand
Eight hundred and
1874. 11 November. Seventy four (1874) the sum of Five hundred (£500) pounds, which the
Honorable Sir
Seventy-Mile Bush.
Donald McLean has paid to us, in
consideration of all our claims to land contained within the boundaries of the
land known as Tamaki or Seventy Mile Bush Block,
Receipt for £500 . the full description of which land is contained in the Deed of Sale of
Tamaki Block to the
[Claims of Te Hapuku and
Tareha.] Queen of England dated the sixteenth (16th) day of August One thousand
Eight hundred and Seventy one (1871) We hereby finally surrender all our claims
to the above lands to Victoria the Queen of England and Her Successors for ever.
Hapuku.
Tareha.
Signed by the said Te
Hapuku and Tareha the deed having been first translated and explained
to them in the presence of—
J. P. Hamlin, Licd.
Interpreter of Napier.
S. Locke,
J.P., Napier.
A True Copy of Original Deed and Translation, Two Enclosures, and
Endorsement.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington,
July 18th, 1877.