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proper instruments. But in order to give
unity of design and completeness to the work
contemplated, and with a view to carrying it out
hereafter among the Maori children, your com-
mittee would recommend that a Central Board
should be established whose duty it should be
tosuperintend and promote vaccination through-
out the Colony, and they think that such
Board might consist of the Native Secretary
of the Colonial Surgeon, of the Heads of the
various Missionary Bodies and of such other
persons as His Excellency might consider quali-
fied to give advice or assistance. And they
are of opinion that until the natives generally
have been vaccinated, two professional vacci-
nators should besent among them to travel about
and operate upon all who are willing to sub-
mit to it. These professional vaccinators might
also visit the different Mission stations, supply-
ing them with lymph and instruments, and
giving instruction were required.

To prepare the natives for the visits of these
gentlemen, and induce them to avail themselves
of their services your Committee are of opin-
ion that' a short treatise on Small Pox and
Vaccination should be printd in the Maori
tongue and circulated amongst them as widely
as possible, and they venture to suggest that
it might produce the best effect upon the Na-
tive mind if they were given to understand,
that it was the result of the solicitude of the
Representatives of New Zealand for their
health and welfare. But what ever may be
decided upon with reference to this question,
your Committee venture to express an earnest
hope that it may be done speedily and as com-
pletely as possible.

It must be obvious that the great facilities
of inter-communication which now exist be-
tween different parts of the world, while at-
tended with incalculable advantage to the best
interest of mankind, at the same time, and by
the same reason have a tendency to propagate
disease. The appearance of contagious diseases
of every description is therefore a thing which
may be looked for at any time, and against
which every prudent precaution ought to be
taken. Should small pox be introduced into
New Zealand before the Natives are protected
its ravages may be expected to be fearful;
nor could the disease be general or fatal among
the natives without its violence falling in
some measure upon the white population.
Every consideration therefore urges us to the
step of protecting the natives by means of a
general system of vaccination.

In the complete carrying out of such a mea-
sure not only is our own safety involved, but
our character, as an offshoot from that great
Country which claims in her treatment of the
barbarous peoples over whom in different parts
of her Empire she rules, the preeminence of
justice and humanity.

ROBERT HART,
Chairman.

July 14th, 1854.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland,
15th November, 1854.

IN pursuance of the 20th clause of the Resi-
dent Magistrate's Courts Ordinance, Sess. 7,
No, 16, I hereby select and appoint the fol-
lowing Aboriginal Native to be an Assessor
along with the Resident Magistrate for the
district of Rangiaowhia, for settling disputes
between persons of the Aboriginal Race; that
is to say

WIREMU NERA, of Wairgaroa.

R. H. WYNYARD,
Officer administering the Government.
By His Excellency's command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary

Commissioner of Crown Lands' Office
Auckland, 2nd December, 1854.

DEPASTURING Licenses, within pro-
claimed Hundreds, will be issued under
the Crown Lands' Ordinance (No. 1, Sess. 10,
and No. 10, Sess. 11) to all Persons being
occupants of Land under Crown Grants, or in
the case of Pensioners, Natives, or Half-castes,
by permission of the Crown; applying for
such Licenses at this office on or before the
1st of January, 1355.

These licenses are to be issued at a fee of
ten shillings and sixpence each.

W. GISBORNE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

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