The late Maka Makomako, a Ngai Tahu chief of Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi
The late Maka Makomako, a Ngai Tahu chief of Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi
[ca. 1900]
"Maka Makomako, who was over ninety years when he died, is believed to be the last of the twenty-six principal chiefs who sold the first block of the 400,000 acres in the South, in Otakou, now Otago. The deed executed between the natives dated 31st July 1844, in which they conveyed to Mr William Wakefield, agent for the New Zealand Company, the land in the districts known as Otakau, Taieri, and Mataura, estimated to comprise 150,000 acres for £1400, bears on it, among the signatures, the name of 'Makomako'. In conjunction therewith are the names of Taiaroa, father of the late Hon H K Taiaroa, Tuhawiki, Horomona, Pohio, and others. The sign manuals of the Maori owners of the soil were witnessed by John Jormyn Symonds, P M Frederick Tuckett, George Clark jun, Protector of Aborigines, and David Scott"
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