Maori Deeds of Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume One

Translation

Translation.

1851. 25 August. Manukau District.

This Deed

written on the 25th day of August 1851 is an Agreement between certain chiefs of Ngatiwhatua and the Queen of England Whereby we the owners of the piece of land described in this Deed consent to sell the said piece of land to Queen Victoria in

Mount Smart No. II.

consideration of the sum of fifteen pounds now given to us, wherefore we give and deliver over to Queen Victoria and to her Successors for ever

Boundaries.

all that piece of land and all that belongs to it bounded on the North by the road to Panmure on the East by the land sold to Newman, and to Williams, on the South by the land sold to Williams, and

on the West by the land sold to Watt and to Henry, the plan is drawn on the other side of this Deed.