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be encouraged, and be made the means of imparting 

 knowledge to the children and youths. Many of 

 these catechists are to be found who have grown 

 up near the missionaries, and who are competent 

 and willing to enter into every measure for the im- 

 provement of their countrymen. 



The whole system of effectually protecting and 

 gradually civilizing the natives of New Zealand 

 may therefore be reduced to the following simple 

 points : 



1. Security in their titles to the land which they 

 occupy, provided such land is a sufficiency. 



2. Purchase of their remaining land by payment 

 in live-stock. 



3. Security of the property of the children of 

 Europeans by natives. 



4. The internal arrangement of all the reserved 

 landed property to be left to the natives themselves. 



5. No purchases of such land by Europeans to be 

 valid, nor under any condition to be occupied for 

 government purposes. 



6. Procuring by treaty or purchase a sufficiency 

 of land for conquered tribes, who are henceforth to 

 be under the protection of government. 



7. The administration of justice within the limits 

 of the tribe, and amongst themselves, to be left, for 

 the present, to the natives. 



8. Publishing a short code in their own language, 

 which shall be simple enough to be in harmony with 

 their rude state of society and their wants, but of 



