No. 7. Te Aro No. (McCleverty's Agreement)
TE ARO NO 4, (MCCLEVERTY'S AGREEMENT) WELLINGTON DISTRICT.
"Lands guaranteed to Te Aro natives" - map
7 October, 1847.
Boundaries [50 acres.]
The Natives of Te Aro having represented that within the limits of the lands assigned to them by the deed, no kumara plantations can be made, and that they have those plantations on sections 8 & 9 in the Town District to a limited extent which sections are leased by Messrs. Bethune and Hunter.
To these plantations they have no legal right but His Excellency the Lt.-Governor has approved that for the purpose of cultivating that vegetable production one half of the Section 26 Ohiro District and which adjoins 8 & 9 Town District shall be assigned to them from March 1848.
The portion thus given to the Natives of No, 26 Ohiro District is 50 acres, included within the boundary A.B.C.D.E. the boundaries being the Sea on the South; the Sea and Ohiro Stream on the East; the boundary line of No. 25 same district to the North, and a line dividing off the said 50 acres, running parallel to the Eastern boundary line of 8 & 9 Town District on the West.
W. A. McCleverty
Lt.Colonel
Wellington, October 7th, 1847.
This 1/2 section was sold by the Natives interested therein to Mr J. Hunter with the full concurrence of Hon. Mr. Mantell this twenty-fifth day of March 1863.
George Swainson
Comr. of Nat. Res.
Wellington March 20/63.
Ko te Whakamaoritanga
Māori translation
No te mea, kua kia mai a nga tangata a Te Aro kahore he wahi i nga whenua kua tukua atu ki a ratou. Hei whakatupuranga kumara ma ratou. Ko a ratou kumara kei Paekawakawa kei runga o te pihi whenua 829 ko taua pihi whenua no Petune ma raua Hanita ehara i a ratou aua kainga. Koia Te Kanawa ka whakaae atu kia ho atu tetahi taha o te 26 o te pihi whenua mo ratou kei Ohiro, ko taua kainga e apiti ana ki te 829 o te pihi o te Taone. Otira hei te tuatahi o Maehe 1848 te tangohia ai ki taua whenua me ratou. Ko te wahi o te 26 o te kainga i ohiro ka oti nei te whakaae mo nga tangata 50 o nga ekara kei roto kei nga kaha A.B.C.D.E. ko te kaha ki te tonga ko te moana ko te kaha ki te marangai ko te moana me te awa i Ohiro. Ko te kaha ki te hau raro ko te raina o te kaha o te pihi 25 i Ohiro me te raina e wehe ai taua 50 o nga ekara tika tonu ana ki te muru kei te kaha o te 829.
True translation
W. Duncan, Interpreter.
A true copy of Original Deed, and Māori translation.
H. Hanson Turton.
Wellington, January 8th, 1876.