Rangitopuni Block, River Waitemata, Auckland District.
Memorandum
of Agreement made and entered this 12th day of December 1844 Between1844. 12 December. Auckland District. Rangitopuni.John Moore. [1,000 acres.]
John Moore of Auckland Printer and the Native Chief Tau Tari. Whereas the said Tan Tari agrees to sell and the said John Moore agrees to purchase all that piece or parcel of land situated about one mile from the head of John Fair's creek about three miles from Stewart and Breton's Saw Mills and about sixteen miles up the Waitemata from Auckland for the sum of Eighty pounds worth of Slops, Bedding and other clothing and the receipt of which by the Native Chief Tau Tari is hereby acknowledged,Receipt.
and in consideration thereof the said Tau Tari hereby conveys assigns and assures to the said John Moore and his Executors Administrators and Assigns for ever the said piece of land hereinbefore described and particularly set out in the plan on the margin.tautari.
Signed by the said Chief, the same having been first read over and explained to him in the presence of—
Wiremu Watene.
Witness—
E. Meurant, Interpreter.
A True Copy of Original Deed. No. 71.P.C.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington, 23rd July, 1880.