Translation.
Know all men who see this book. We have agreed, all the chiefs and all the men of
1854. 21 March.Ngaio.Site for mission-Station sold for £20. the Ngatinihaere (tribe) and some of the Ngatirua (tribe) that we will
give up for ever the Ngaio and the places joining it to the Committee of the
Church of England as a residence for a Minister.
We have been paid before by the Committee for all that land, and since then we
cultivated that land: now therefore we agree to let that place remain for the
Minister; nor will we hereafter intrude to cultivate that land. The boundary of
that land begins Boundaries. at "Parakanui "and goes on by the side of the Swamp that is to say "Te Rua
o te Tupaka" and continues on to the Koai tree and ends at "Otara."
We have also agreed to return the money that is to say, Three Hundred Pounds
Sale of 1840 repudiated. (£300) which we received for the whole of the land. For the portion of the
Minita to live on that sum of money shall be reduced to £280. Now the Minister
shall be allowed also to cut timber for fencing, for firewood, and for other
purposes, from the Papakanui forest.
We have signed our names to this book as a sign (guarantee) that we will perform
what is written within. Written on 21 March 1854.
Signatures—
Paora Kepa his x mark.
And others.
Witnesses—
Christopher Davies.
James Preece.
A true Transcript of Office Copy of Original Deeds and Translations. No.444kO. L. C.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington,
28th May, 1879.