Rangitopuni Block, River Waitemata, Auckland District.
Memorandum of Agreement made and entered this 12th day of
December 1844 Between 1844. 12 December.Auckland District.Rangitopuni.John Moore. [1,000 acres.] John Moore of Auckland Printer and the Native Chief Tau Tari. Whereas the
said Tan Tari agrees to sell and the said John Moore agrees to purchase all that
piece or parcel of land situated about one mile from the head of John Fair's creek
about three miles from Stewart and Breton's Saw Mills and about sixteen miles up
the Waitemata from Auckland for the sum of Eighty pounds worth of Slops, Bedding
and other clothing and the receipt of which by the Native Chief Tau Tari is hereby
acknowledged, Receipt. and in consideration thereof the said Tau Tari hereby conveys assigns and
assures to the said John Moore and his Executors Administrators and Assigns for
ever the said piece of land hereinbefore described and particularly set out in the
plan on the margin.
tautari.
Signed by the said Chief, the same having been first read over and
explained to him in the presence of—
Wiremu Watene.
Witness—
E. Meurant, Interpreter.
A True Copy of Original Deed. No. 71.P.C.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington,
23rd July, 1880.