An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand
Matena Tupoki, Wi Tana Ngatata, and Wi Ropiha
Matena Tupoki, Wi Tana Ngatata, and Wi Ropiha.
The next two sections are in the name of Matena Tupoki and Wiremu Tana Ngatata. A fifty acre section was originally promised to these two men and Wi Ropiha Motutere, as a reserve; but they afterwards asked to have three separate reserves of twenty acres each, each man wishing to purchase thirty acres, so that each might have a fifty-acre section. This was agreed to, and Matene and Wi Tana have to pay for thirty acres each, of which they have deposited the greater part of the price. Wi Ropiha afterwards paid the whole purchase-money for his section, which is marked off further inland.