There are many in this district living together unmarried and the only plan open in my idea is that I should be in a position to marry, on my visits to the different settlements. On my visit to Moeraki last July, several couples who had been living together wished me to marry them which of course I could not do. To give one instance of the their necessity of their being lawfully united. There is a man here, living with a young woman having taken her to wife in the Maori way.