Translation.
Let
all men know who see this Deed, we, whose names are here written the chiefs of1839. 30 August. Waikato Heads. Putataka.
Ngatikarewa and Ngatitahinga, some of the tribes of Waikato who dwell on the Western Coast of the Island of New Zealand, deliver up, sell, and give up the kainga, the cultivations, the wood: viz., Part of Putataka which lies at the mouth of the river Waikato, to theRev. R.
Maunsell and Mr. B. Ashwell as a kainga (property), land, inChurch of England Mission.
perpetuity, for the Committee of the Missionaries of the Church of England, or for any person that Committee names; and we give the land, the trees, the water, and everything above, below that kainga, as a payment for the things which are here written, which we have received. And we declare that we alone are the persons who have the right to dispose in sale of that kainga (of that portion of Putataka) which lies inside these boundaries, which are here written. And we declare that no part of the land which is here written was sold formerly, and let no one hereafter call in question this purchase of Maunsell and Ashwell, which was made on this day the 30th August in the year 1839.Boundaries.
And the boundaries of that property (of that portion of Putataka) are these: Begin at the River Waikato at the hill on the outside of the settlement at Putataka, and run in the middle of the hollow beneath that settlement, ascend at the point on the ridge which is above that settlement, go up continually on the path by the holes, climb by the side of the steep place, and at the pa you will meet with the old boundary.Receipt.
Now the things which were given to us as payment for that property, for that portion of Putataka which lies within these boundaries are these: 12 blankets, 12 axes, 16 adzes, 10 trowsers (duck), 10 shirts, 3 £s, 3 plane irons, 3 chisels, 20 fish hooks, 6 lbs. soap, 8 spades, 50 lbs. tobacco, 2 razors, 4 knives.Behold our names or marks written on this day Aug. 30, 1839.
[Witnesses.]
[Signatures.]
A True Translation.
Thomas S. Forsaith, Intr.
No. 388 b.O.L.C. A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deeds and Translations.
Wellington, 20th May, 1879.