408 TRADE AT TAURANGA. [PART II. 



almost to nothing, chiefly in consequence of the 

 facility of obtaining European articles at a cost less 

 than that of dressing the flax. The trade in pigs 

 is still carried on ; and the traders obtain many 

 pigs from the valley of the Thames, from Mata- 

 mata. 



Little of the land at Tauranga has been sold, 

 with the exception of one piece to the Church mis- 

 sionaries, which is called Te Papa (the flat). The 

 natives are not inclined to sell any land, and their 

 number is sufficiently large to enable them to 

 occupy and cultivate their beautiful district them- 

 selves, if a durable peace were established among the 

 different tribes. 



