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Historical Records of New Zealand

Instructions to Major Foveaux, Acting Lieutenant-Governor at Norfolk Island

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Instructions to Major Foveaux, Acting Lieutenant-Governor at Norfolk Island.

Instructions for Major Joseph Foveaux, of the New South Wales Corps, appointed to act as Lieutenant-Governor of His Majesty’s settlements in Norfolk Island, in the Pacific Ocean, a dependancy on His Majesty’s territory of New South Wales.

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4th. The productions of all descriptions acquired by the labor of those supported by the Crown is to be considered and accounted for as a public stock, to be appropriated solely for the maintenance and use of those who are unavoidably maintained at the public expence; the overplus to be reported respectively as pointed out by the second article of these instructions.

You are also to cause the utmost attention to be paid to manufacturing the flax plant into such cloth as can be worn by the convicts, employing all such convict women as are maintained by the public in preparing it, and the weaver who will go with you in manufacturing it; and you will, as soon as I may hear from you, be provided with such articles as are needful. You are also to allot three acres of ground for the experiment of cultivating the European flax, and manufacturing it, if found preferable to the New Zealand flax; and also the same quantity of ground for the experiment of cultivating and manufacturing cotton, which may be propagated from that growing on the island and the seeds which you carry with you. You are also furnished with the mode of cultivating that necessary article in the Bahamas. And you are also to encourage, as much as possible, the salting of pork, both from Government stock of swine as well as that of individuals, for the purpose of supplying this place as well as Norfolk Island. And to facilitate this necessary and desirable object, you are herewith furnished with the different modes of salting animal food in warm climates, as well as a plan and directions for making pans to obtain salt from the water by evaporation.

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Given under my hand at Sydney, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1800, in the fortieth year of His Majesty’s reign.

Philip Gidley King.