Translation.
Know all men by this writing that We Warepoaka, Manuwiri,
Waikato, Marupainga 1828. 9 May.Te Puna. and Pani, let go and sell Tepuna to John King for the Church Missionary.
Society, for them for ever to dwell on to sell or do whatsoever they list with,
the land of our fathers Church of England Mission. and of us also.
And this is the boundary: it commences from the sea to the foot of the hill
called Boundaries. the Rorekahu, and from thence to Punatewao, from there it goes across to
the main [12 acres.] drain of the swamp, and follows it out to the mouth, and then along the
beach to the commencement: about ten acres more or less, and trees standing and
whatsoever is above or below.
This is the payment which we have received: 24 axes, 12 hoes, 12 spades, 15 iron
Receipt. pots, 24 blankets, 12 chisels, 12 plane irons, 12 prs. scissors, 12 combs,
12 knives, 100 fish hooks.
Wherefore we write our signatures as marks of this transaction on the month of
May in the year One thousand Eight hundred and twenty-eight.
[Witnesses.]
[Signatures.]
A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Translation. No. 450a.O.L.C.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington, 29th
May, 1879.