STATION OF KAITAIA. 201 
There still remain two Stations of the Church 
Missionary Society in New Zealand, briefly to 
be noticed. They are, however, but just formed ; 
and therefore little, at present, can be said con- 
cerning them. 
The settlement of Kaitaia was first thought 
of, in consequence of the earnest solicitations 
of the chiefs and people of the tribes called the 
Rarawa, who reside in the vicinity of the North 
Cape ; and who, from their local situation, were 
not a Station formed among them, would be 
quite out of the reach of Christian instruction, 
and also of Christian society and example. As 
the natives are numerous in the neighbourhood, 
and as their invitations for some of our body 
to dwell with them were frequent and urgent, 
a Deputation was appointed to visit that part of 
the island, and to report as to the fitness of 
forming a Missionary Station there. The Cor- 
responding Committee in New South Wales was 
also written to, for its sanction to such a measure, 
should it be deemed at all desirable to pursue 
it; which sanction, after mature deliberation, was 
given. So very precarious, at this time, was the 
state of the Society’s funds ; and so strict were 
our instructions to observe economy, and not to 
undertake any new thing leading to any great 
additional expense, that, even after the sanction 
of the Committee of Correspondence had been 
obtained, and a favourable report had been made 
by the Deputation, the view of the additional ex- 
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