CHAP. I.] GENERAL REMARKS. 9 



but which cannot be regarded as an entrepot or 

 point of transit, the first question as to its future 

 prosperity and success should be : Can the settle- 

 ment produce all that it may require for internal 

 consumption, and will provisions be cheap as com- 

 pared with the price of labour ? This should, undoubt- 

 edly, be the case in New Zealand, and, consequently, 

 the supply of provisions to ships and to the Austra- 

 lian colonies will be the principal source of export 

 from the colony. 



To afford facilities to the first settlers of creating 

 agricultural produce to extend the utmost liberality 

 to those who have purchased land and intend to be- 

 come working colonists to permit them to have an 

 extensive choice, that they may select the good land 

 in preference to the bad to give them legal titles 

 accordingly, and not to allow them to consume their 

 capital after their arrival in the colony by a delay of 

 the surveys are the only means of securing pros- 

 perity to New Zealand. Under such circumstances 

 the system of land sales in England at a fixed price, 

 and the application of the purchase money to send 

 out agricultural labourers and mechanics, in a just 

 ratio to the demand of labour, the price of provisions, 

 the quantity of capital employed, and the actual pro- 

 duce of the land, accompanied by a sound discretion 

 as to the number of emigrants sent out, cannot, it 

 appears to me, be easily replaced by a better one. 

 The sooner the land is populated the sooner it pro- 

 duces all articles of home consumption, the quicker 



