PRICE PAID FOR CITY
Blankets and Tobacco EARLY HISTORY RECALLED The price paid for Auckland was detailed by the Mayor, Mr G. W. Hutchison, in welcoming the delegates to the annual conference of the Federation of New Zealand Justices of the Peace. “The land on which to build the city was purchased from the NgatiWhatua tribe on October 20, 1840,” said the Mayor. “The original area was 3000 acres, more or less. The price was as follows:—50 blankets, 50 pounds in money, 20 trousers, 20 shirts, 10 waistcoats, 10 caps, 4 casks of tobacco, one box of pipes, 100 yards of gown pieces, 10 iron pots, one bag of sugar, one bag of flour, and 20 hatchets. “This transaction is worthy of note at the moment,” said Mr Hutchison, “because I am at present trying to secure for the remnant of the NgatiWhatuas, still living at Orakei, permanent tenure of sufficient !%nd for their domestic life, the area to which they have been reduced being a mere 21 acres. “By a queer trick of fate,” added the Mayor, “some of our own people could do with the blankets, trousers, and shirts back again.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 78, 14 March 1934, Page 11
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193PRICE PAID FOR CITY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 78, 14 March 1934, Page 11
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