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Summary of Extracts from the Minutes showing a Mechanical Count of Varying Statements of the Effect of the Ngati Koata Gift of Whakapuaka Block.

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That the Gift was to Wi Katene. • j Name of Witness. M.B. Reference. — : That the Gift was to Kauhoe ! Thafc the Gift was to other than Kauhoe or * I Wi Kfltpup In Reply to Hemi Matenga. In Reply to other Conductors. Hemi Whiro .. Nelson, 1/15.. .. I t+ w rr ± i i • ' • • j • • It was given to Wi Katene and his »? • • 1/16. . I heard that Te Whetu had given the land to Wi Katene. Meihana Kereopa .. „1/16.. .. Koata gave the land to Wi Katene and we remained there in slavery. " *• " 1/16.. .. .. Xe Whetu gave the land to Kauhoe, mother of Wi Katene. lhaka Tekataka .. „ 1/17.. . . Koata gave the land to Wi Katene for himself, not for the tribe. Hoera Ruruku .. ,, 1/18.. .. .. Kauhoe asked Te Whetu for a piece of of land to live on. He told her to go to some other member of Koata. She went to Te Mako Iharaira and Tepene Mukumai who told her to go to Whakapuaka and showed her the boundaries. „ .. 1/19.. Te Mako Iharaira and Tepene on behalf of Koata gave Whakapuaka to Wi Katene but we continued to have a right to it. » •• ,, 1/20.. This land was shown to Wi Katene as land on which they might live. „ ■ „ 1/20.. Some of the Ngati Koata lived on the land after the gift to Wi Katene, but I cannot give their names. Ngamuka Kawheru ,, 1/20.. u ± ™ tt 7 , , & ' ' • • • • ■ • ivaunoe and her son came to Te Whetu asking for some land for herself and boy on which they might live. She was sent to Whakapuaka., but told ti,«i rp i a. i <» /n~n not take others with her. lhaka lekateka .. ,, 2/2o9 • x. at , • 7 * • • • I Whakapuaka was given by Ngati Koata to Kauhoe and her son Wi Katene. Te Wahapiro was at 9 /0 Murihiku at that time. " "' •* •• •• The Ngati Tama referred to are Kauhoe . and her family. ~ •• •• -• (To Hemi Matenga.) These people were at Rangitoto when Whakapuaka was given to Kauhoe and W T i Katene. These were the only persons to whom the land was given, j The boundaries of the land given ' 1 were described.