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English
Maori
11 October 1851 This letter was written from Wairarapa that is from Peretanginoa, to the Governor and his land administrators for Maori and Pakeha. Friends, listen to this account from us to you, it is an account about land. We were living here and a Pakeha came to us, his names Mitipana and Eraihia, to give him some land and we gave over some land for him. Now, we arranged the price of £12 for one year, and the Pakeha lived on that land. But not long after that Wereta and others and his children, with Hoera and Patoromu as the chiefs of that party, came here, and they went to the Pakeha's place and slept there. The next day Wereta went and said to him, 'Give me some trousers', but he would not give them. He took something away, the Pakeha
11 Oketopa 1851 No Wairarapa ara no Peretanginoa, i tuhia ai tenei pukapuka ki a Kawana ratou ko ana kaiwhakarite whenua mo nga Maori mo nga Pakeha ano hoki. E hoa ma, Kia rongo mai koutou ki tenei korero atu a matou ki a koutou, he kore[ro] whenua tenei. Noho ana matou ka haere mai te Pakeha, ko tona ingoa ko Mitipana raua ko Eraihia, kia tukua he kainga mo taua Pakeha, a, tukua ana e matou te kainga mo taua Pakeha. Na, ka ritea iho e matou nga utu £12 mo te tau kotahi, a, noho ana te Pakeha ki runga ki taua kainga. A, kihai i roa ka haere mai a Wereta ma ratou ko ana tamariki, ko Hoera, ko Patoromu, ko ratou nga rangatira o taua ope, a, ka tae mai ratou ki te kainga Pakeha, a, ka moe. Ka ao te ra ka haere atu a Wereta, ka mea atu 'Homai moku tetahi tauratete', a, kaore i homai. Ka mauria mai tetahi mea e ia, ka tohe mai te Pakeha,

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