The Arahura Deed was a land sale and agreement between Kāi Tahu iwi and the New Zealand settler government, signed on 21 May 1860 by Poutini chiefs at Māwhera (modern-day Greymouth). The signed document states the chiefs give up their people's customary title over 3 million hectares of whenua (land) in return for £300 with 6,734 acres reserved for the people of the iwi, and another 3,500 for "religious, social and moral purposes".

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History of the West Coast, New Zealand 1860 in New Zealand Ngāi Tahu {{Māori-stub