Mataka.Thos. McDonnell. I, Macquarrie Tao Nui, a New Zealand Chief, do hereby declare that in the year 1836, I sold a quantity of Land to Thomas MacDonnell adjoining the Horeke property, named the Mataka and received in payment for the same as specified in the Deed of purchase, but as the boundaries were not clearly defined at the time I Macquarrie page 247Tao Nui was called upon by Thomas MacDonnell in the month of April last to mark the limits of the said property called the Mataka which was done accordingly and was Confirming deed of sale. inserted in the Deed of the same, which Deed Thomas MacDonnell has declared was destroyed by Fire when his dwelling house was burnt on the first of July last. Now be it known unto all men that I the said Macquarrie Tao Nui in consideration of the said Deed being destroyed by Fire Do of my own free will and consent hereby agree to the following description of the Boundaries of the Mataka with its appendages which is to include all Streams and Creeks that may run through the same as all Woods and Forests and also all and everything that may be above or below the surface of the Ground and including all the Taboo'd places which I the said Macquarrie Tao Nui acknowledge to have sold to Thomas MacDonnell his heirs and successors for ever. The boundaries Boundaries. [5,500 acres.] commence from a position on the right bank of the River Hokianga where the opening of the Oreda River bears West ¾ North from which a line running East ¾ South to a Mark made by me Macquarrie Tao Nui and from the latter mark rounding or skirting close to a Wood taking in the Tay and on the Western extremity of a taboo'd Wood and then round the base of a sloping hill and from thence in a direct East South East line from where the two English miles terminate is to constitute the North boundary of the Mataka with its appendages from the last portion a line running South West by South until the Mataka patch bears North is to be the inland boundary of the Mataka as aforesaid the Northern boundary of the Horeke property is to be the Southern boundary of the Mataka property with its appendages, which comprises the Tay, Puhi Tarete Tuhi Rangi Puha Taraide Motu Shohi and the Duatou The different bearings specified in this Deed are all by compass And I hereby for myself my heirs and successors Do renounce for ever all claim to the Mataka with its appendages having sold the same to Thomas MacDonnell his heirs and successors for ever. In testimony of which I do hereby put my hand and seal this 7th day of November 1842.