Translation.
1838. 30 September. Bay of Plenty District. Te Papa No. 1.
Know
all men by this deed that we Tare, Tamakaipi &c. &c. rangatiras of Tauranga, do let go to and sell to the Rev A. N. Brown ("Te Paraone") on behalf of the Church Missy. Society, and to their heirs or assigns for ever, the lands belonging to our fathers and to us also.Church of England Mission.
This is the boundary: the beginning, the Taumatakahawai, going on to Herekura, and from thence to the Kauere, going on by the seaside (of the inlet) to the narrow[30 acres.]
where you cross, the inlet of the sea on each side being the boundary of the Papa, and also from thence to the sand banks called Maruru and Aopo, and whatever may be found growing thereon or deposited therein.Receipt.
This is the payment which we have received 20 blankets, 10 spades, 10 adzes, 10 axes, 10 hoes, 10 Iron pots. In witness whereof we have written our signs "hei tohu " of our having let go, or agreed to, this selling on the 30th day of September 1838.[Signatures.]
[Witnesses.]
True translation.
E. Shortland.
No. 444 c.O.L.C. A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Translation.
Wellington, 23rd May, 1879.