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Pooka Roka to a run of water called O Koomu Koomu, and thence to the sea beach, and fronted by the river, being a portion of the Land known by the name of Pa Kanae, on the east side of the River Hokianga.

Alleged to have been purchased from Mactarra.

Consideration—a Mare, valued at £.50, sterling.

Date of purchase, 3rd. May, 1836.

Deed of same date from Mactarra to Claimant.

13. John Israel Montefiore, of the Bay of Islands, merchant, Claimant.

343a. 1r. Three hundred and forty three acres and one rood, more or less, viz.—all that piece or parcel of land situated, lying, and being in Manawa Bay; beginning at a point of land in Huruhe Bay, (Tepeku bearing west by south from said point), and ascending the ridge of hills in a northerly and northwest direction, to a point of land called Tewhaararahara, including the whole Bay of Opunga and Kohu Point, with the Island called Tewaha, back to the point of land in Huruhe Bay.

Alleged to have been purchased from Ware Rahi, Pau, Pokerehu, and Tupanapana.

Consideration—£. 20, sterling.

Deed from the above Chiefs to Claimant, dated 22nd. August, 1836.

14. James Busby, of New Zealand, Esq., Claimant.

15. Two hundred and seventy acres, more or less, situated at Waitangi, on the western shore of the Bay of Islands; bounded on the east by land purchased from the Ngati Rahiri Tribe, (No. 2); and the waters of the Bay of Islands; on the north by the waters of the Bay; on the west by a straight line drawn from a place called Mata Kakara, and passing through a stony watercourse called Wai Kawere to the River Waitangi; and on the south by the River Waitangi.

Alleged to have been purchased from Heke, Tuhirangi, Rete, Inake, Te Arapiho, Hau, Toua, Peha, Peia, Tabuina, and others of their Tribes.

Consideration—Goods and Money to the amount of £. 80 6s. 6d., Sydney prices.

Deed to Claimant dated 30th. June, 1834.

15. James Busby, as above, Claimant.

16. Twenty-five acres, more or less, situated at Waitangi, on the western shore of the Bay of Islands; bounded on the east by the waters of the Bay; on the north and west by land purchased from the Matararahu Tribe (No. 1); and on the south by the River Waitangi.

Alleged to have been purchased from Hapatahi, Tao, Pokai, Kamera, Marupo, Aka, Hau, and others of their Tribes.

Consideration—Goods to the amount of £. 37 4s., Sydney prices.

Deed to Claimant dated 22nd. November, 1834.

16. James Busby, as above, Claimant.

17. Five hundred acres, more or less, situated on the western shore of the Bay of Islands; bounded on the east by the waters of the Bay, and the land purchased by Mr. Busby (No. 1); on the north and north-west by the waters of the brook Wairoa, and by a straight line from a hill called Puke-Poto to a hill called Anaokakau, and by the valley of Kahotea to the hill called Terakanihi; and on the south-west and south by the top of the Range, which separates it from the land purchased from the Ngati Kawa Tribes.

Alleged to have been purchased from Toua, Te Peha, Taitu, and others of their Tribe.

Consideration—Goods to the amount of £. 13 5s., Sydney prices.

Deed to Claimant dated 26th. November, 1835.

17. James Busby, as above, Claimant.

2,000. Two thousand acres, more or less, situated in the District of Waitangi, at the Bay of Islands; bounded on the east by the land purchased by Mr. Busby in 1834 (No. 1), and a mangrove swamp; on the south by land purchased by Mr. Busby in November, 1835; on the west by the range of hills stretching from the River Waitangi, over the hills called Taupare and Moorewa, to the hill Tauanui; and on the north by the ridge of hills extending from Tauanui to Terakanihi, whence it is bounded by the land purchased from the Puke Tribe, in continuation to the land purchased by Mr. Busby in 1834 (No. 1).

Alleged to have been purchased from Kamera, Te Tao, Parangui, Waikarua, Taro, Puhiahia, Puri, Ripa, Nguoa, Tuhirangi, Peia, Te Arapiho, and Wirean.

Consideration—Cash and Goods to the amount of £. 21 7s. 6d., Sydney prices.

Deed to Claimant dated 27th. November, 1835.

18. James Busby, as above, Claimant.

19. One hundred acres, more or less, situated in the District of Waitangi, in the Bay of Islands; bounded on the north and west by the River Hutia and the swamp (the boundaries of the land purchased by Mr. Busby in November, 1835), to the River Waitangi above the Fall; on the east by a Gulley, called Ratori, and a line to the top of the Hill called Rangaranga, whence the boundary follows the road till it is opposite to a place called Awa Tapu, whence the boundary is a line to the River Waitangi below the Fall, in the direction of the Awa Tapu; on the south by the River Waitangi to Waipune, the commencement of Mr. Polack’s boundary, and thence by Mr. Polack’s purchase to the River Waitangi above the Fall.

Alleged to have been purchased from Kamera, Nguoa, Parangi, Te Arapiho, Puhiahia, Inake, and others of their Tribes.

Consideration—Cash and Goods to the amount of £. 21 17s. 6d., Sydney prices.

Deed to Claimant dated 11th. July, 1838.

19. James Busby, as above, Claimant.

20. Sixty acres, more or less, situated in the district of Waitangi, at the Bay of Islands; bounded on the north and north-west by the land purchased by Mr. Busby on the 11th July 1838 (No. 5); on the south-west and south by the River Waitangi below the Fall, and the Island purchased by Mr. Polack; on the south-east and east by the bed of the River Waitangi; and on the north-east by the River Hutia.