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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18480, 7 September 1925, Page 10

An historic Maori. deed concluding a property sale by a chief near Kororeka (now called Kussell) over ninety years ago, has come into the possession of an Aucklander. It is a modest cijough document in size, being about as large as a leaf of an ordinary book, but has a certain artistic effect that is never found in. a deed of to-day. A few simple sketches that are the tattoo marks of the Maoris who negotiated the contract and a list of signatures in .well-written English alongside three thumb impressions in black ink, constituted the deed of purchase and sale. In the good old times, it is said, the landholder always signed his name with his tattoo mark, a process which made the deeds of that era quite respectable works of art. The document in question is a page of a deed dated February 23rd, 1834, by which a certain Akiewa and his people transferred a block of land to one William. D. Brind, of.the "good ship Torrance Castle." The land was a block of "COO English near Kororareka, and the cost was "four doublebarrelled guns and two hundred weight of powder■ » The deed came into the hands of Mr T. Vinton Smith, of Melbourne, who is deeply interested in Maori lore, and has many interesting exhibits of early land transactions in *ew Zealand, and was posted by him to a friend m Auckland.

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