Translation.
Know all men by this Deed that We Reretuwenua, Tamakaipi
&c. &c. chiefs of Tauranga 1839. 30 March.Bay of Plenty District.Te Papa No. 2. do let go and sell to the Revd. A. N. Brown (Te Paraone) for the Church
Missy. Society and their heirs or assigns for ever, to locate, sell, or any other
purpose whatever the lands of our fathers and of us also.
This is the boundary. Begins at Taumatakahawai, going on to Herekura, and Church of England Mission. from thence to Kauere, from thence going inland to the river and on to
Warepapa, Papeka, Okehuroa, Taikau, Waiariki, Tuki o te Waihake, Waipara, Omarori,
Opohue, Boundaries. [1,000 acres] Tahataharoa, Inetewata, Waipuna, Heremaro, Rangiora, Turangipo, Ora,
Ohinetekuri, Tarere, crossing over the land to Pukahinahina and from thence to
Pokorau, Pakehbuhou, Ware o te Ao, from thence going on to Ririiti, Tauparirua,
Maeanui, Waihirere, and Puharakeke, and on from thence to Taumatakahawai: also all
things growing thereon or deposited above the earth or below it.
These are the payments given to us: One Calf, 40 Adzes, 60 large Blankets, Receipt. 40 axes, 40 Hoes, 40 shirts, 40 Trowsers, 12 spades, 100 Pipes, 70 lbs.
Tobacco, 24 Scissors, 24 Razors, 24 Plane irons and 100 Fish Hooks.
In Witness whereof to this our letting go and selling, we have written our signs
(or tohus) on the 30th of March in the year of our Lord 1839.
[Signatures.]
[Witnesses.]
True translation.
E. Shortland), P. A.
A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Original Deed and Translation.No. 444d.O.L.C.
H. Hanson
Turton.
Wellington,
23rd May, 1879.