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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5027, 4 May 1877, Page 4

In these days, when the promotion of new industries and providing the means of giving employment to our rapidly increasing population require the earnest attention of all who take an interest in our progress, we think it right to indicate a new opening for the employment of capital and labor on a small scale in a native district on the shores of the Wangaehu, between the Turakina River and Wanganui. The following communication from a native at Wangaehu has been received by the Government, and kindly handed to us ; and although it might more properly be headed " Wanted some Pakehas," and published as an advertisement, we give it—as well for the sake of its quaintness as in the hope that it might suit some gentlemen whose taste leads them to prefer light and intermittent labor—the benefit of free currency in our columns. " To Mr. Clarke and to the Minister. —Friends, salutations, —This is to request you to send some pakehas hither to establish a fishery at the mouth of the Wangaehu River, and supply the pake- : has and Maoris with ' fish oh.' Friends, the supervision of these pakehas should be in my hands, because the land most suitable for their occupation belongs to me ; that on the side where the pakehas live is all sand. If you agree, let four pakehas come with two, boats and nets. If you approve, write; if not, write. Sufficient. —From me Te Wuntt tb AHURtr. — Whakatakerenui, April 23, 1877." Possibly Mr. McLaren and his four followers, the " unemployed" of Dunedin, might find fishing in the tranquil stream of the Wangaehu, under the supervision of Te Wuntj te Ahurtj, an agreeable change from the troubled waters of Dunedin and the supervision of the police. ■. ■■'-... ■'