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bleeding, and blistering ;" and besides, assistance is 

 always refused if there is anything sexual in the 

 disease. On the other hand, it is not medicine 

 alone that is wanted, but advice and dietetical mea- 

 sures, with a few simples; and in a great many 

 cases a medical man alone is able to form a correct 

 judgment. In order to provide this aid for the 

 natives, it would perhaps be advisable that the com- 

 missioners for the different provinces should be in- 

 dividuals having some degree of medical knowledge, 

 that they should direct their attention to the state 

 of health of the aborigines, that they should com- 

 municate to government a quarterly statement of 

 the health of those intrusted to their care, and that 

 they should issue a printed circular to all the natives 

 of the district, informing them that they can obtain 

 help on application. 



To insure to the aboriginal inhabitants the means 

 of livelihood, to protect them in the possession of 

 their property, not merely by the letter, but by 

 the spirit and most scrupulous application of the 

 laws, to place them in all civil rights on a foot- 

 ing of equality with the Europeans, are no doubt 

 among the first and most essential duties of the 

 legislature. But, in a new and prominent effort of 

 European enterprise, as the colonization of New 

 Zealand will be, civilization ought likewise to show 

 its usefulness by developing the slumbering faculties 

 of a native population through instruction, and by 

 rendering them gradually capable of participating 



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