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offenders, or for rendering any other service to the 
Government. 
Light work should be offered to such as could be 
induced to undertake it, and rewards, as clothing, 
or the like, should be paid in proportion to the 
value of the work done, and beyond the mere provid- 
ing them with food. 
Gifts might also be made to those parents, who 
consented to give up the performance of any of 
their savage or barbarous ceremonies upon their 
children. 
Young men should be encouraged to engage 
themselves in the service of settlers, as shepherds 
or stockkeepers, and the masters should be induced 
to remunerate their services more adequately than 
they usually do. 
The elder natives should be led as far as could 
be, to make articles of native industry for sale, as 
baskets, mats, weapons, implements, nets, &c., these 
might be sent to Adelaide and sold periodically for 
their benefit. 
Such and many other similar regulations, would 
appear to be advantageous, and might be adopted or 
altered from time to time, as it should be deemed 
desirable. 
Upon the subject of schools for the native children, 
it appears that much benefit would be derived from 
having them as far separated as possible from other 
natives, and that the following, among others, 
would be improvements upon the plans in present 
use. 
