Title: An Epitome of Official Documents Relatives to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand

Author: H. Hanson Turton

Publication details: George Didsbury, 1883, Wellington

Part of: He reo nō ngā whakaritenga me ngā pukapuka here / Language of agreement and obligation

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

The writer is one of the Ngatiwhatua tribe, who sold the land now occupied, or rather laid out as a Native village at Mangere; the real grievance being that the future occupants are to be a tribe or tribes from Waikato, and hence the jealousy of the writer and some of his tribe.