APPENDIX V. (p. 188.) 



ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OE THE PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND, 

 NEW ZEALAND, TO THE GEOLOGIST OF THE NOVARA. 



Dr. Hochstetter, 



On the conclusion of your Geological Examination of a large 

 and most interesting portion of this province of New Zealand, we — the 

 assembled inhabitants of Auckland, representing every section of the 

 community, and for the most part intimately connected with the Agri- 

 cuTture and Commerce of the province — desire to express our admiration 

 of the eminently scientific manner and unwearied activity with which 

 you have conducted your researches into the Geological Formations and 

 Mineral Resources of Auckland. We have also to thank you for the 

 valuable information upon these objects, which you have already placed 

 in our possession in the public lecture delivered by you in this hall on 

 the 24th of June, and in the reports you have forwarded to the General 

 and Provincial Governments. 



The report of a member of the Novara Expedition^ on the physical 

 characteristics of this portion of New Zealand — of which so little has 

 hitherto been known — will be acknowledged in Europe as both impar- 

 tial and authentic. 



To us, as a community, the information contained in that report and 

 the maps you have constructed, together with those additional details we 

 hope to receive from you after your return to Europe, will be of essential 

 service in a material point of view. We also desire to convey to you 

 our sense of the impartiality of your reports, which, whilst they lay 

 open to our view those resources of the country that will eventually aid 

 to its wealth and its general prosperity, in no way exaggerate their 

 value or tend to lead to extravagant ideas or speculations that might 

 only result in disappointment. 



Arriving in Auckland a stranger, upon whose sympathies we had no 

 claim, you have exerted all your energies to condense the results of your 

 scientific exploration into practical forms, for the benefit of the people 



