Translation.
1836. 1 December.Know all men who may see this document that we Tara and
people, Waru and people, Tamaki Block.Ruapuke and people, Chiefs of Ngatiterau have given up entirely and sold to
Mr. Wairoa.Fairburn that portion of land called Kumekume, Tapuika, and all places on
the River W. T.
Fairburn.Wairoa, the country, the lands, the woods, and all things
above and below all that tract of land, for him and for his Children for ever, to
sell, cultivate or do with as they Boundaries.please.
And the boundaries of that piece of land are these. On the upper (or Southern)
side, the Wairoa is the boundary, go on from thence to Papakura; on the Western
side, Manukau is the boundary; and at Otahuhu in Tamaki it ends. And these are the
payments Receipt.which we have received for that tract
of land, for the woods, for the rivers, and for all things above and below that
land, Twenty-five Blankets, Fifteen Axes, Ten Adzes, Ten Iron-pots, Fifteen
Hatchets, Half a Cask of Tobacco, Ten Shirts, Ten pair page 309 Trowsers, Ten Spades, Ten plane-irons. Witness here our
signatures written this day the first of December, in the year of our Lord, One
thousand Eight hundred and Thirty-six.