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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24226, 19 February 1940, Page 6

SOLD FOR £IOO PURCHASE OF SOUTH ISLAND INTERESTING DOCUMENT UNEARTHED , SYDNEY, Feb. 18. (Received Feb. 18, at 10 p.m.) According to the Sunday Telegraph a deed of indenture recording the purchase of the South Island of New Zealand for £IOO has been discovered in the strongroom of the Wentworth family in a Sydney solicitor’s office. The deed discloses that the South Island was purchased by Mr W. C. Wentworth, explorer and statesman, and Mr John Jones, of Sydney, from Maori chieftains in 1840. Stewart Island was also included in the purchase. In addition the purchasers had to pay an annuity of £SO to the Maori king (Tuhawaiki) and also smaller annuities to several chieftains. Mr W. C. Wentworth, of Point Piper, a grandson of the original buyer, has expressed his intention to present the document to the Mitchell Library, in Sydney, where it is regarded of real value. The document bears Maori tattoos in place of the signatures, which w.ere completed a few months before the treaty of Waitangi.

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