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" nor have the present Trustees the means of furnishing 
" information on this subject, although application has 
" been made to Mr. Halswell for it." 
Mr. Clarke junior constantly tells the same story in his 
Reports ; and Mr. Campbell, the Surveyor of the Land 
Claims Commission, seems to have joined in the state- 
ment in order to obtain the appointment of Sub- 
Protector of the Aborigines at Taranaki ; vrhich was 
conferred upon him immediately after he had given the 
opinion which Mr. Spain thus embodied in his Official 
Report as Commissioner of Land Claims, at the end 
of 1843:— 
" Mr. Campbell, our Surveyor, informs me, and I 
" fully coincide in his opinion, that, with few excep- 
" tions, the Native Reserves have been selected in spots 
" so distant from the pas, and where the ground is 
" so hilly as to render them almost useless to the na- 
" tives for the purposes of cultivation ; and that little 
" regard has been paid to the interests of the natives in 
'* these choices " 
The coincidence of the Commissioner's opinion with 
that of his Surveyor is curious, as many of the Reserves 
were certainly never seen by the Commissioner, and 
probably not by the Surveyor, who was seldom known 
to go further than Kai TVara JVara, a mile Irom 
town on the Pitone road. 
There was never a more complete illustration of the 
proverb, " Give a dog a bad name and hang him," than 
the way in which the Government and its officers 
vilified and destroyed the system of Native Reserves. 
On the 13th of August, two settlers from New Ply- 
mouth arrived in Wellington by land, to make arrange- 
ments for buying and forwarding some cattle to Ta- 
ranaki. 
The general progress of that settlement was de- 
