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

[Deed Receipts—No. 46.]

Deed Receipts—No. 46.

Nopera’ s Claims in the Auckland District.

Kua riro

mai ki a matou na te Makarini i tenei ra ara i te iwa (9) o nga ra o Maehe i

1854. 9 March.

Auckland District.

te tau o to tatou Ariki 1854 enei taonga ara e toru tekau pauna moni e rua nga

Nopera’ s Claims.

paraikete kotahi pihi kareko e rua tekau pauna taimaha o te tupeka. Hei utu enei mo

Receipt for money and goods.

a matou wahi whenua katoa ki Manukau ki Waitemata ki Tamaki ki Papakura ara ki nga wahi katoa e tata ana ki Akarana.

Heoi kua oti i a matou te tuku i a matou wahi whenua katoa kua oti nga ingoa te whakahua ki a Wikitoria te Kuini o Ingarangi ake tonu atu.

Nopera Tamure.
Te Reweti Iwikahu x.
Ihimera Poutaka.
Te Ngahuru Kaiwhakawa.

Kai Titiro—

H. Halse, Sub-Inspector of Police, New Plymouth.
G. S. Cooper, Sub-Land Commissioner, Taranaki.

Translation.

We have

this day received at the hands of Mr. McLean on the Ninth day of March in

1854. 9 March.

the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty four 1854 the Sum of

Nopera’s Claims.

Thirty Pounds Sterling (£30) Two Blankets One Piece Calico and Twenty Pounds

Receipt for money and goods.

weight of Tobacco in payment for the whole of the Lands we claim at Manukau, Waitemata Tamaki and Papakura, that is to say the whole of the Lands claimed by us and adjacent to the district of Auckland.

Thus have we made an entire surrender of the whole of the Lands specified within the above named Districts to Victoria the Queen of England for ever and ever.

Nopera Tamure x.
And 3 others.

Witnesses—

H. Halse, Sub-Inspector of Police, New Plymouth.
G. S. Cooper, Sub-Land Commissioner, New Plymouth.

A True Copy of Original Receipt and Translation.

H. Hanson Turton.

Wellington, July 27th, 1875.