Tangiteroria Block, River Wairoa, Kaipara District.
Te Warau, Kaipara,
New Zealand, November 17, 1836.1836. 17 November. Kaipara District.
Tangiteroria.
Know
all men by these presents that I Tirarau Chief of a part of the Tribe called Te Uriohau and residing at Mangakahia on the Wairoa River have this day sold and delivered up to the Wesleyan Missionary Society and to their agents or assigns to haveWesleyan Mission.
and to hold from this day henceforth and for ever the parcel of land situated on the banks of the said Wairoa River, Kaipara known by the name of the Tangiteroria and bounded on theBoundaries. [400 acres.]
South West and North West by the aforesaid river Wairoa, on the South by a line running from the mouth of a creek called Moengaweke to a place called Te Haumi, and on the North East by a line running from Waikaruhi to Pehirau for and in consideration of the following payment, viz. £20 Sterling, 10 Blankets, 10 Shirts, 10 Trousers 48 yds. Print, 4 bars Soap, 5 lbs. Tobacco, 50 Pipes, 10 Combs, 5 Scissors, 100 Fish hooks, 10 Felling axes, 20 Hatchets, 15 Hoes, 5 adzes, 14 Spades, 2 Iron Pots, which articles I have this day received from the Revd. James Wallis, Wesleyan Missionary, as witness my hand.Witness—
George Stephenson.
E. Meurant.
Wiremu.
Sd.
Tirarau.
Paikea.
James Wallis,
Resident Missy.
True Copy.
No. 389 d.O.L.C. A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed.
Wellington, 21st November, 1879.