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Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume Two

Translation

Translation.

1844. 29 March.Wellington District. We have received on the 29th of the days of March in the year One Thousand Eight hundred and forty four from the Directors of the New Zealand Company at London the payment being made by William Wakefield, the Agent of the said Company, TwentyWaiariki No. 1.Mr. Commissioner Spain's arrangement. Pounds in money, a full payment, a full satisfaction, an absolute surrender, of all our Title to all our claims in all our Lands, which are written in the document affixed to this, viz. all the places at Port Nicholson and in the neighbourhood of Port Nicholson in New Zealand, and on the other hand the Pas the cultivations the sacred places and the places reserved will remain alone for us, and we consent ourselves to write our names in a Land conveying document hereafter if asked to write them to the Directors of the said Company of all our claims within the said Lands, the only places left for us are those above mentioned.

(Signed) Te Kana x his mark.
Tamati Paipa x his mark.
Te Puhi x his mark.

On the part of the remaining Natives at Waiariki—

George Clark, Jun.,
Protector of Aborigines.

Names of the witnesses to the signatures—

(Signed) Willm. Spain, Commissioner.
George Clarke, Jun., Protector of Aborigines.
Thomas S. Forsaith, Protector of Aborigines and Interpreter to Commissioner.

True Copies.

W. A. McCleverty, Lt.-Colonel.

The original deed with dates respectively and original signatures are deposited in the Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, and attached to the Commissioner's Report on Port Nicholson,

W. A. McCleverty, Lt.-Colonel.

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Endorsement. Plan of the Native Cultivation Reserve at Waiariki containing 400 acres or thereabout.

W. A. McCleverty, Lt.-Colonel.
(Signed) The Mark x of Te Maru.
(Signed) The Mark x of Hamiora Hori.

Signed by Te Maru and Hamiora Hori on the 17th day of June 1848 in presence of—

(Signed) R. J. Deighton, Native Interpreter.

(Signed) S. M. Scroggs, Asst Surveyor.

True Copies.

W. A. McCleverty, Lt.-Colonel.

A True Transcript of Attested Copy of Original Deed, Memorandum, Translation, and Endorsement.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, 31st August, 1877.