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claims of the latter are found consistent with justice, 

 or that it will return to them, and that they may 

 sell it to government. 



With regard to the quantity of land, it will be 

 the duty of the commissioner to procure them a 

 sufficiency ; and as to what constitutes a sufficiency, 

 I think that ten acres of arable land for each indi- 

 vidual of the tribe, man, woman, or child, chief or 

 slave, is ample. New Zealand is not adapted for pas- 

 ture, but for agriculture ; and, being a mountainous 

 country, the quantity above mentioned will be very 

 valuable. When the question of providing for the 

 children of the missionaries was brought before the 

 committee of the Church Missionary Society in 

 London, two hundred acres for each child was 

 thought to be a liberal allowance. It must, how- 

 ever, be observed that, in a country where there is 

 such a great difference in the value of land, and 

 where only cultivable land is valuable, as there 

 is no natural pasturage, ten acres of arable land 

 must be regarded as sufficient for all reasonable 

 wants of an individual. On the other hand, if that 

 quantity is not thought sufficient for the children of 

 a missionary, who have no claims to the land, I 

 should assert that it is not sufficient for a native, 

 there being no reasonable ground for making a dif- 

 ference between them. As many of the natives will 

 leave their tribe, and seek a livelihood amongst the 

 Europeans, those who remain will benefit by their 

 departure, as, according to the present established 



