Wakatu 21 Pepueri 1851 E hoa, e Kawana, He kupu taku ki a koe mo taku pukapuka i tuhituhia e au i mua, i whakakahoretia e nga tangata o Patea, o Waitotara mo taku tohenga kia utua aua whenua, kia tango ai au i nga utu. E hoa, e totohe tonu ana ahau ta te mea ko au te putaketake o te whenua, tena ko ratou he pikari ratou ki runga i te whenua. Tenei, ko te take o te whenua ko aku tipuna, ko Wairerekura i tukua iho ki au i tana ahitanga. Na Te Meihana Wakatu 21 February 1851 Friend, Governor, A word to you about my letter I wrote to you earlier concerning the people of Patea and Waitotara objecting to my persisting about payment for those lands, and that I take the payments. Friend, I still persist because I have the ancestral claim to the land, and they, they are mere chicks on the land. Now, the claim on the land is from my ancestors; from Wairerekura it came down to me from his occupation of it. From Te Meihana