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Waiwakaiho 18 January 1848 Go off there, this goodwill of mine, to McLean. Friend, Greetings to you. I have great affection for you, and it is not just for today. However, I have heard talk about you, I've heard that you are leaving us, and so I began to think about you, about our customs and yours, about how different they are, and that this may be the reason for your leaving us. However, it is your decision. But what is to become of your plans? I think to myself that a strange Pakeha may visit us, someone whose thinking [. . . insertion above line illegible] we will not understand, and he [would not understand] our custom whereby a child can be raised by a stranger when a parent dies. And it would not be right to be thinking of us [the Maori only] in relation to all of our customs, because of our feeling for you and [you] for us. But heed me, my regard for the Pakeha is such that it will never be denied. Friend, McLean, in the matter of the house, Takuta is arguing for the land beside Wiremu Paita's, between his and Wiremu Pita's. I am not inclined to agree with the widows in case I have to leave [land] that I like as part of the child's garden. Here the Pakeha is saying of his land that it be bought in the first year, four acres for £30. You are saying only one acre, and so it is not right for you to delay it for months. Friend, if you agree, let the house be built beside my son's garden, in February or the beginning of March. The windows you instructed to be built, I have told the carpenter to stop [work on them] and make them like the windows Pakeha have, like those of[?] your mill, and the carpenter agreed with me. That is all. From your good friend, from Hone Ropiha Waiwakaiho

Waiwakaiho 18 Hanueri 1848 Haere atu ra, e tenei aroha oku, ki a Te Makarini E hoa, Tena ra koe. Ka nui toku aroha atu ki a koe; ehara inaianei te aroha. Otira kua rongo au ki tetahi whakaaro ki a koe. Kua rongo au e wehea ana koe i a matou, no konei ka rapurapu taku whakaaro ki a koe, ki to matou ture, ki to koutou, he mea awe to koutou ki to matou, he mea awe to matou ki to koutou, no konei au i whakaaro ai ka wehea koe i a matou. Otira kei a koe ano te whakaaro, e taea koa te aha i a koutou tikanga? Ka whakaaro au ka haere mai tetahi Pakeha ke ki a matou, e kore matou e mohio ki ana whakaaro [. . . insertion above line illegible], inahoki ta matou tikanga, ka mate te matua, ka waiho te tamaiti he tangata ke mana e atawhai. E kore e pai te maharatanga tenei ki a matou mo a tatou tikanga i te aroha ki a koutou, ki a matou. Whakarongo mai, ko toku aroha tenei ki nga Pakeha, e kore e whakakahoretia ake tonu atu. E hoa, e Te Makarini, ko te ritenga mo te whare, e tohe mai ana a Takuta ki te whenua i te taha o to Wiremu Paita, i waenganui o to raua whenua ko Wiremu Pita. Kahore au e whakaae, e mea ana naku ki nga pouaru kei mahue i ahau taku i pai ai, kei te kari ano o te tamaiti. Tenei ano te Pakeha e mea ana ki tona whenua kia utua i te tau kotahi, e wha nga eka, e toru tekau pauna. Ko tau i ki ai kia kotahi eka, kahore i tika ki te roa atu koe i nga marama. E hoa, mehe whakaae mai koe kia hanga te whare ki taha o te kari o taku tamaiti i a Pepuere ranei, i nga ra timatanga ranei o Maehe. Ko nga wini i ki ai koe kia whakapaia, kua ki atu au ki te kamura kia whakakahoretia, me penei ano me nga wini o nga whare o nga Pakeha, me tou i tehe[?] mira, kua whakaae mai te kamura. Heoi ano. Na tou hoa aroha, Hone Ropiha Waiwakaiho

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3 pages written 18 Jan 1848 by Hone Ropiha in Waiwakaiho to Sir Donald McLean, related to Taranaki (Taranaki Iwi), Inward letters in Maori

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Document date	18 January 1848
Document	MCLEAN-1032468
Document title	3 pages written 18 Jan 1848 by Hone Ropiha in Waiwakaiho to Sir Donald McLean, related to Taranaki (Taranaki Iwi)
Document type	MANUSCRIPT
Attribution	E Ma
Author	216508/Ropiha, Hone, d 1863
Collection	McLean Papers
Date	1848-01-18
Decade	1840s
Destination	Unknown
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Entityid	None
Format	Full Text
Generictitle	3 pages written 18 Jan 1848 by Hone Ropiha in Waiwakaiho to Sir Donald McLean, related to Taranaki (Taranaki Iwi)
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Language	English
Maoriorigin	E Ma
Name	216508/Ropiha, Hone, d 1863
Origin	1107573/Waiwakaiho
Place	1107573/Waiwakaiho
Recipient	4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Section	Manuscripts
Series	Series 2 Inward letters (Maori)
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Subarea	Manuscripts and Archives Collection
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Tapuhiitemdescription	Contains letters from Maori to McLean with regard to land tenure on the west coast of the North Island; in particular, there are negotiations about prices, leasing details, letters about the creation of reserves, warnings not to purchase land from non-owners and letters setting out refusals to sell
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Tapuhiitemname 3	4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
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Tapuhiitemtitle	Inward letters in Maori
Tapuhiitemtitle 2	Series 2 Inward letters (Maori)
Tapuhiitemtitle 3	McLean Papers
Tapuhipiecedescription	Cross-hatched letter describing dealings with pakeha in the area
Tapuhipiecedisplaydate	18 Jan 1848
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Tapuhipiecesearchdate	1848
Tapuhipiecetitle	Letter from Hone Ropiha to McLean
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Year	1848

3 pages written 18 Jan 1848 by Hone Ropiha in Waiwakaiho to Sir Donald McLean, related to Taranaki (Taranaki Iwi) Inward letters in Maori

author	216508/Ropiha, Hone, d 1863
destination	unknown
origin	1107573/Waiwakaiho
recipient	4809/McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Folder	MS-Papers-0032-0672A

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