Okura Block, Kerikeri, Bay of Islands District.
An
Agreement made and entered into between Hara Hautungia Kanawa Haku Ngeri1838. 8 March. Okura.
Matuhara Temara Chiefs of Okura of the one part and George Clapham Settler in NewG. Clapham.
Zealand of the other part made and entered this day the 8th of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Eight.The said Chiefs Hara Hautungia Kanawa Haku Ngeri Matuhara Temara agrees to sell a
piece or parcel of land situated at Okura
Boundaries. [200 acres.]
Bounded on the one side by the Okura Creek down to Onaia a small island which adjoins the said land and from that up the Mangatawai Creek and from there the Te Parihoro Kotiwaiwa Hatakiu Temote Taumatawarua Pukehia and from there down to Ngonohuhu by the water side in Okura Creek.And the said Chiefs Hara Hautungia Kanawa Haku Ngeri Matuhara Temara received from George Clapham 5 Casks Powder 3 Muskets 1 fowling piece 17 Cartouch boxes 9 Axes 1 white Shirt 1 pr. Trowsers 1 duck frock 1 Jacket 1 piece Print 1 piece Calico 1 cask Tobacco 10 Blankets 1 large cask Powder in canisters 6 spades 4 doz. Flints.
And the said Chiefs Hara Hautungia Kanawa Haku Ngeri Matuhara Temara agree
Receipt.
to give up all the right and title to possession of the said land situated at Okura to George Clapham his heirs assigns executors in consideration of the said value specified as above. In Witness thereof we have hereunto subscribed our names: dated this day the 8th of March in the year of our Lord 1838.