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tricts (where land is sold at ten shillings per acre), also con- 

 tains certain arrangements, by virtue of wliicli intending 

 emigrants of the labouring classes, who shall come out at 

 their own expense, receive some assistance to enable them to 

 settle on certain proportions of the land which the Govern- 

 ment presents to them by way of indemnification for the 

 expenses of their voyage, in the proportion of 40 acres to 

 each person above 40 years of age, and 20 acres to all be- 

 tween 5 and 17 years.* The sole condition attached by the 

 Government to this land-indemnity is that the emigrant bind 

 himself to remain five years in the province ; which period 

 once elapsed, he may dispose of the land at his pleasure. In 

 order to encourage persons accustomed to tuition to settle in 

 Auckland, all persons who are fitted to instruct children in 

 elementary knowledge and English grammar, on their hav- 

 ing discharged such duties for five years to the satisfaction 

 of Government, are entitled to a grant of 80 acres of land. 

 ' The most important products and articles grown for ex- 

 port are, all sorts of cereals, wool, and ship-timber. A 

 marked increase has taken place in potato cultivation, of 

 which in 1857 there were exported 4430 tons, value £23,328, 

 and in 1858, 6116 tons, value £33,056. Of building timber 

 of all sorts there were exported in 1857 £12,205, and in 

 1859 £34,376 in value. 



* These grants, however, are only made to the person who actually defrays the 

 expenses of the passage : thus they are not made to children, but to their parents ; 

 not to the servant, but to the master, who has paid the passage of the former. 



