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penses, necessarily to be incurred in the formation 
of a new Station, prevented, for a few months, 
this desirable object from being put into execu- 
tion. The Members were, however, nominated, 
and requested to make all possible preparations 
for moving, as soon as a spot should be selected 
for the site of the settlement. They commenced 
in good earnest ; the natives were informed of 
the resolution we had passed, to settle some of our 
limited number amongst them, as teachers of the 
Word of God; and in January 1834, Mr. Matthews 
went there, to take up his permanent residence. 
After a short period, as soon as small rush- 
liouses had been erected for their reception, he 
was joined by Mrs. Matthews, and Mr. and Mrs. 
Puckey ; who, it is conceived, will be sufficient to 
carry on a School, and to make stated visits 
among the natives of the distant villages, on the 
eastern and western coasts. 
Tlie spot fixed upon for this settlement was a 
little rising ground in the extensive and beautiful 
valley of Kaitaia ; the approach to it from the sea 
being up Rangaunu Bay, or creek, running in 
from Sandy Bay; Mount Campbell forming the 
northern head of the entrance, and the high land 
of Oruru Bay the southern. The site of the 
Station is about half-way between the two coasts; 
having the western coast to the north-west, and 
the eastern to the south-east : and here the island 
is so narrow, that you can hear distinctly the 
roaring of the surf on both beaches. A rapid, 
but not navigable, river, winds its devious course 
