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APPRENTICING NATIVES. 
are certainly in justice entitled to expect at 
our hands much more than they receive, will be 
excited in the breasts of the British public, who 
are especially their debtors on many accounts. 
I am aware that the subject of the Aborigines is 
one of a very difficult and embarrassing nature in 
many respects, and I know that evils and imperfec- 
tions will occasionally occur, in spite of the utmost 
efforts to prevent them. No system of policy can 
be made to suit all circumstances connected with a 
subject so varied and perplexing, and especially so, 
where every new arrangement and all benevolent 
intentions are restrained or limited, by the deficiency 
of pecuniary means to carry out the object in a pro- 
per manner. Already the subject of apprenticing 
the natives, or teaching them a trade, has been 
under the consideration of the Government, but 
has been delayed from being brought into operation 
by the want of funds sufficient to carry the object 
into effect. It is intended, I believe, to make the 
experiment as soon as means are available for that 
purpose. 
My duties as an officer of the Government having 
been principally connected with the more numerous, 
but distant tribes of the interior, I can bear testi- 
mony to the anxious desire of the Governmentto 
promote the welfare of the natives. 
I have equal pleasure in recording the great in- 
terest that prevails on their behalf among their 
numerous friends in the colonies, and the general 
