raised by one's own Countrymen. I am sorry to find that the contractors have offered the Europeans daily pay at 4/- (this however the Europeans will not take). It is reviving a system that we are anxious to break through and will do harm - the natives are full of it, and it does appear to me at first sight as though the Europeans were soliciting the natives to combine with them with the hope of getting higher rates. I have sent some memoranda for your approval one is for tools for the Unewera and the other to authorize me