A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume One.

[No. 20.]

No. 20.

Deed of Sale by Members of the Ngatitama. and Ngatirarua Tribes.

No. 535. Deed of Sale.£150.Ngatitama and Ngatirarua. Ceding claims to land at and adjacent to Separation Point, Province of Nelson. Executed 7 th March, 1856.

Tenei

pukapuka tuku whenua e tuhituhia nei i tenei ra i te whitu 7 o nga ra o Maehe i te tau o to tatou Ariki kotahi mano e waru rau, e rima te kau ma ono, 1856. He pukapuka tino whakaae tino hoko pono na matou, na nga tangata e mau nei nga ingoa kei tenei pukapuka, kia tukua rawatia o matou whenua katoa ki Whenuakura puta noa ki te Matau rere noa ki Powharo tae noa atu ki Motupipi ki a Wikitoria, te Kuini o Ingarangi, ki nga Kingi, Kuini, ranei o muri iho i a ia ake tonu atu.

A mo te tino hokonga tino tukunga rawatanga i enei whenua katoa e whakaae ana te Kuini o Ingarani, mona kia utua matou ki nga pauna moni kotahi te rau e rima te kau (£150 0 s. 0d.) Ko aua moni kua riro mai ki a matou i tenei ra na Te Makarini i homai.

[Translation.]

This paper or deed of sale, written on this day, on the seventh of the days of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, is a paper of the full consent and full and true sale by us whose names are affixed to this paper wherein we fully and finally transfer all our lands at "Whenuakura, thence to the Matau, and continuing on to Powhara, and thence to Motupipi, to Victoria, the Queen of England, or to the King or Queens who may succeed her for ever and ever.

And having fully and entirely sold and transferred all these lands, the Queen of England on her part agrees to pay us in money, one hundred and fifty pounds (£150 0s. 0d.) which money has been paid to us on this day by Mr. McLean. -

[Here follow the signatures.]