Translation.
1835. 25 September.Listen all men to this book of ours, of Tenana, of Huri. We let
go and sell to Mr. Baker Onekura. a piece of land of Kororareka of ours—Oriekura (is the name), for him for
his Charles Baker. Children to sit upon to sell or to do as he pleases for ever with it. The
boundary is Boundaries. [30 acres.] this. On the South by Kotia Tangata where the Church stands from the
Swamp.until you come to Matauhi: on the West by the side of the Swamp nineteen
fathoms: then on the North until you come to Matauhi: on the East, the Swamp and
Matauhi. The Receipt. payment we received was this, Four Blankets, ten dollars in money, two
axes, two hoes, two combs, two scissors, ten pounds Tobacco, twenty pipes.
Therefore we write our names to this giving up, to this, sale on the twenty-fifth
day of September, One thousand Eight hundred and thirty-five.