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caused tlie natives incalculable advantages, and that thereby no 
disadvantages whatever could he connected either for the individual 
or for the people collectively; and yet the benefits arising therefrom 
are of a very dubious kind. Formerly they used to work twenty to 
thirty upon an acre at a time; now the plough is busy, and the 
twenty or thirty sit about the acre laughing and joking, eating and 
smoking, — thinking, the Europeans had invented all such things 
only to keep them from working. A native, for instance, who had 
erected a mill at a great expense, expecting to he able to grind 
a large quantity of flour, and to sell it with great profit to the 
Pakehas , has found afterwards that he has reckoned without his 
host. The natives of the vicinity have heard of the mill, they go 
to visit the rich miller; according to the wonted communism they 
consider his flour as theirs also, and ere long the supply of flour 
is consumed. The mill , which the miller is not inclined to work, 
that others might reap the benefit , stands still. Money and labour 
are uselessly expended; and the enterpriser, instead of having be- 
come richer by his mill, is poorer than before. 
As with agriculture, so it is with navigation. The natives on 
Tauranga Harbour, for example, worked and saved for a number 
of years, to get money enough together, that they might buy a 
schooner and be aide to say, “we are ship-owners and captains as 
well as the Pakehas.” By the sale of wheat and potatoes they 
really made up the sum of £800, and at last, thirty or fourty of 
them together owned a fine schooner. But what happened now? 
“We have worked very long,” they said, “now let us rest a while,” 
and thus the ship was in the water, but the natives on the shore. 
Once or twice perhaps they made a trip to Auckland; but they 
had beforehand sold so much of their produce, that now they had 
nothing left to sell or to ship; like children they got tired of their 
plaything; the schooner lies idle; it is owned by forty, hence by 
nobody; none of them arc willing to undertake any repairs; the 
vessel goes to ruin, and again money and labour are lost. Had 
those thirty or forty kept to their old canoes, they would have 
done better. 
