Rangihau No. 2286 Block, Mercury Bay.
1872. 7 September. Coromandel District.
Rancihau no. 2286.
Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, To all to whom these presents shall come greeting, know ye that for good considerations us thereunto moving we for us our heirs and successors do hereby grant unto Repiu Tokata Reupena Tahura, Wiremu Te Huia and Ereatara Tinirau of the District of Coromandel in the Province of Auckland, aboriginal Natives of New Zealand their heirs and assigns all that Parcel of land in our Province of Auckland in our Colony of New Zealand containing by admeasurement nine (9000) acres more or less situate at Mercury Bay in the District of Coromandel Queen's Country being called or known by the name of Rangihau and numbered two thousand two hundred and eightyBoundaries. [9,000 acres.]
six (2286) Bounded towards the North East by the Rangihau Creek and by the Kapowai block three hundred aud fifty (350) links, One thousand one hundred (1100) links, two thousand one hundred and five (2105) links, one thousand two hundred and thirty (1230) links, one thousand one hundred and thirty seven (1137) links, one hundred and sixty (160) links, six hundred and eighty four (684) links, two hundred and fifty three (253). links, three hundred and thirty seven (337) links, four hundred and seven (407) links, one hundred and seventy eight (178) links, one thousand four hundred and eighty five (1485) links, six hundred and nineteen (619) links, two hundred and thirty nine (239) links, and one thousand three hundred and seventeen (1317) links, by the Tauwhare Purakau Creek and by the said block one hundred (100) links, five hundred and twenty (520) links, One hundred and seventy two (172) links, three hundred and eighty three (383) links, eighty three (83) links, and two hundred (200) links, by the Waipouri Stream and by the said block one hundred (100) links, nine hundred and fifty (950) links, seven hundred and twenty (720) links, one thousand and two (1002) links, six hundred and eighty four (684) links, four hundred and sixty (460) links, two hundred and eighty one (281) links, one thousand seven hundred and thirty nine (1739) links, and six thousand two hundred and ninety (6290) links, towards the East by a line eleven thousand nine hundred and seventy five (11,975) links, towards the South by lines thirty (30) links, one hundred and eighty eight (188) links, two thousand eight hundred and twenty (2820) links, one hundred and fifty five (155) links, five hundred and six (506) links, two thousand three hundred and twenty five (2325) links, eight hundred and four (804) links, two thousand four hundred and sixty eight (2468) links, five hundred and sixty six (566) links three hundred and seventy five (375) links, three hundred and thirty four (334) links, one hundred and sixty six (166) links, four hundred and four (404) links, two hundred and ten (210) links, two hundred and twenty three (223) links, seven hundred and forty eight (748) links, three hundred and sixteen (316) links, two hundred and eighty seven (287) links, two hundred and twenty one (221) links, five hundred and one (501) links, three hundred (300) links, three thousand nine hundred and ninety (3990) links, eleven thousand two hundred and sixty three (11263) links, and one thousand two hundred and fifteen (1215) links, towards the South West and West by the Waiwawa River and towards the North West by the Waiwawa block ten thousand and eighty seven (10,087) links, five thousand one hundred and eighty eight (5188) links, four thousand two hundred and nine (4209) links, one thousand three hundred and sixty two (1362) links, and two thousand two hundred (2200) links, subject however to the right conferred on the Governor of New Zealand by the Native Lands Act 1865 of taking and laying off roads through the said land without compensation provided that the total quantity of land to be taken therefore shall not be more than after the rate of five acres for every one hundred acres and that the land taken for such roads be not occupied by any building garden orchard plantation or ornamental ground such right to cease at the expiration of ten years from the date hereof, as the same is delineated on the plan drawn in the margin hereof, with all the rights and appurtenances thereto belonging To hold hold unto the said Repiu Tokata Reupena Tahura Wiremu Te Huia and Ereatara Tinirau their heirs and assigns for ever as from the seventeenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy two, In testimony whereof we have caused this our grant to be sealed with the seal of our Colony of New Zealand.Witness our trusty and well beloved Sir George Ferguson Bowen Knight Grand Cross of our most distinguished order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Colony of New Zealand at Wellington this seventh day of September in the thirty sixth year of our reign and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy two.
No. 68 by District Land Registrar Produced and entered the 20th day of November 1874 at 3 p.m.
Geo. W. Davy, D.L.R.
The above caveat is withdrawn this twenty sixth day of November 1874 at 3 p.m.
Geo. W. Davy, D.L.R.
Transfer No. 418 from Repiu Tokata Reupena Tahura Wiremu Te Huia and Ereatara Tinirau to Her Majesty Queen Victoria produced and entered the 26th day of November 1874 at 3 p.mGeo. W. Davy, D.L.R.
A True Transcript of Certified Copy of Deed, Timber Lease, and original Crown Grant. Wellington, November 11th, 1875.