Mr. McLean often tells us that the Magistrates have power and the Europeans here often threaten to apply to a Magistrate but when we see your own people disobey how can you expect the Natives to pay attention to the orders of the Magistrate? I beg you to believe that I do not write the above to you from any personal motives, but I consider the question of maintaining the respect of the Natives to the Magistracy and Government so important that I have ventured to communicate the preceding conversation to you. I trust you will consider this letter as written for your own eyes only, Yours sincerely and obliged, John M. Best. no te 7 o Mei 1851 kia te Makarini e hoa tena koe he rahi toku aroha kia koe i tenei po i tenei rangi ka Wehea nei hoki ta ua mehemea rawa ko te Wehenga i a rangi raua kopa pa e hoa tena koe nui noa atu taku aroha kia ara ki toku hoa aroha hoki tenei taku taku kupu ki a koe kia tuturu mau tonu ta koru a wakaaro ko ka Wana kirunga ki ta matou nei i karanga atu ai monga utu o to matou wenua ara ki te 4 mano ki te 8 rau ko te ara hei unga mai mo nga utu hei tuingara hei te Ware o tipene hei ka Wenga mai ki te Wai pukurau nei ta nga ai he waiata mehe poko koe e ma e kai arohi nei i a hau, kamutu naku na to hau aroha Na te Hapuku mau te Waka aro ki te tangata he he atu i taku pukapu ka ki a koe.