Pungarehu Block, Whangaroa, Mangonui District.
This Indenture made entered into and agreed upon this
Twenty-fifth day of September 1839. 25 September.Mangonui District. in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine between
Uduroa a Native Chief of Whangaroa New Zealand of the one part and Hugh McLiver
now of Pungarehu. New Zealand of the other part Witnesseth that I Uduroa as above mentioned
do hereby sell release and assign and have hereby sold released and assigned unto
the said Hugh McLiver his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns all that
piece or parcel of land called or known by the name of Pungareu bounded on the
North West by a line from Boundaries. the point of the Totarra to the Mungonui road, on the South East by the
river or creek called the Iwi-tou (excepting always that piece of Ground now in
the possession of Greorge Smith) and on the South West by the land now in the
possession of Charles Bacon being for and in consideration of the Sum Fourteen
pounds of lawful money of Receipt for £14. Great Britain which has been duly and truly paid to me Uduroa by the said
Hugh McLiver as above mentioned and of which I do hereby acknowledge the receipt,
and I Uduroa as above mentioned do hereby further covenant promise and agree to
and with the said Hugh McLiver his Heirs Executors, Administrators and Assigns to
keep the said Hugh McLiver in quiet and peaceable possession of the said piece and
parcel of Ground as above described In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal the day and year above mentioned.
Uduroa his x mark.
Witness—
Richard Bell.
Chas. Bacon.
A True Copy of Original Deed. No. 154b.O.L.C.
Wellington, 21st November, 1878.