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six o'clock till eight in the summer, and from 
seven till nine during the winter months ; a School 
in the afternoon for the women and girls living 
in the Station, of which there are generally about 
fifty ; and a School for the infant children of the 
Missionaries, whose age does not permit them to 
go to the general European Schools at Paiiiia. 
After morning-school is ended, the remaining 
portion of the day is devoted to the work of the 
settlement, which must necessarily be very vari- 
ous ; and all of which is done by natives, under 
the immediate direction and superintendence of 
the lay-members of the Station. Excepting a 
millwright to erect a mill, and a blacksmith to 
prepare the iron-work for that mill, no European 
has been employed in the work of the settlement^. 
By the natives, and, as was said before, under the 
direction of Messrs. Clarke, Davis, and Hamlin, 
upwards of fifty thousand bricks have been made 
are taught to prepare flax, to be used for weaving themselves 
garments, and for other purposes ; by which they are not only 
occupied in some beneficial employment, but they learn to what 
good account the resources of their own country may be turned. 
• There was one other exception ; during a few months, a 
European labourer had to take care of the horses, till the 
natives could be entrusted with them. The New Zealanders 
were wholly unaccustomed to these noble animals ; and many 
of them had never before seen so large a quadruped. After a 
few months, and as soon as they were thought capable, though 
clumsily, of managing them, the services of Europeans were 
dispensed with, and the horses, with all their labour in agricul- 
ture, in carting, drawing timber, &c., were turned over to the 
hands of the boys. There are only six horses engaged on the 
farm ; the others are used as saddle-horses, to visit the people 
at their distant settlements. 
