(Enclosure in No. 335.)
Conveyance from T. S. Forsaith to Hastings Atkins.
1851. 3 June.Kaipara District.This Deed made the Third day of June in the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-one Between Thomas Spencer Forsaith of Auckland in the
Province of New
Mangawhare. Ulster in the Territory of New Zealand Mercer of the one part and Hastings
Atkins of
Transfer from T. S. Forsaith
to Hastings Atkins. the same place Merchant of the other part Whereas by Crown Grant bearing
date the thirtieth day of December in the year One thousand eight hundred and
forty-four under
page 292 the hand of Robert
Fitz Roy Esquire then Governor of the said Territory and under the seal thereof.
After reciting that one of the Commissioners appointed to hear examine and report
upon claims to land obtained by purchase from the Aboriginal Inhabitants of New
Zealand had reported that the said
Thomas
Spencer Forsaith was entitled to receive a Grant of Three hundred and
fifty-one acres of Land particularly mentioned and described in claim No. 281, Her
Majesty Queen Victoria did grant unto the said
Thomas Spencer Forsaith his heirs and Assigns All that
allotment or parcel of Land therein and herein after described And whereas the
said Hastings Atkins has purchased the same from the said
Thomas Spencer Forsaith for the sum of One hundred and
seventy-five pounds and has requested a conveyance thereof in manner hereinafter
Receipt for £175. contained, Now this deed witnesseth that in consideration of the said sum
of One hundred and Seventy-Five Pounds paid by the said Hastings Atkins to the
said Thomas Spencer Forsyth, Doth hereby convey and assure unto the said Hastings
Atkins his heirs and Assigns All that said Allotment or parcel of Land in the said
Territory said to contain Three hundred and fifty-one acres (more or less)
situated on the River Wairoa and called Mangaware and of which the boundaries were
reported by the said Commissioner
Boundaries. [351 acres.] to be as follows of the entire quantity claimed Bounded on one side by the
River Kaihu, following its course until it reaches the foot of the hill Motuaronga
which hill forms the boundary on the other side extending to the Wairoa River With
all the buildings and improvements thereon erected and made And all other the
rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging and the said in part recited Crown
Grant thereto relating In Witness whereof the said parties have hereunto
subscribed their names.
Thomas Spencer Forsaith.
Hastings Atkins.
Signed by the said parties in the presence of—
Fredk. Whitaker,
Solicitor, Auckland.
Henry Cuthbert, his Clerk, Auckland.
No. 281.O.L.C. A True Copy of Original Deed and Transfer.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington,
15th March, 1878.