Historical Records of New Zealand
[Enclosure No. 1.]
[Enclosure No. 1.]
Estimate of the Expence for the Outfit, Victualling, and Transport of 350 Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Privates of a Military Colony to be established in New Zealand.
Amount. | Amount. | Amount. | |
£ | s. | d. | |
1 lieutenant-colonel, at 17s. per diem | 310 | 5 | 0 |
1 major, at 15s. per diem | 273 | 15 | 0 |
3 captains, at 10s. 6d. per diem | 574 | 17 | 6 |
3 1st lieutenants, at 7s. 6d. per diem | 410 | 12 | 6 |
6 2nd lieutenants, at 6s. per diem | 657 | 0 | 0 |
1 adjutant, at 4s. per diem | 73 | 0 | 0 |
1 quartermaster, at 6s. per diem | 109 | 10 | 0 |
1 surgeon, at 12s. per diem | 219 | 0 | 0 |
3 assistant surgeons, at 6s. per diem | 328 | 10 | 0 |
1 chaplain, at 15s. per diem | 273 | 15 | 0 |
12 serjeants | |||
12 corporals | |||
300 privates | |||
3,230 | 5 | 0 | |
Expence for a transport of 600 tons for the above, at 15s. p. ton p. month | 2,700 | 0 | 0 |
Arms, accoutrements, and necessaries for 330 men, at £10 p. man | 3,300 | 0 | 0 |
Expence of victualling the above 350 men, at 8d. p. man p. diem | 6,576 | 0 | 0 |
Cattle, implements of agriculture, grain, seeds, tradesmen’s tools, goods for barter, &c. | 3,800 | 0 | 0 |
£19,606 | 5 | 0 |
Should the above men be sent out in three 400 ton ships, with 100 convicts, as far as New South Wales, and from thence go on to New Zealand with the colonists, such plan would be attended with less expence and more advantage, for the following reasons: The transport of the convicts would pay the difference between the tonnage of a large ship of 600 tons and the three small ships of 1,200; three ships would be safer and a more convenient method than one, and when the colonists were landed one or two of the ships must be detached for cattle, &c.; by the time they came back the ship that remained would have been detached Home with a cargo of large spars for line of battle ships’ topmasts (the most difficult spars to procure and the most expensive), together with 150 tons of the phormium, the value of which would be as follows:-
£ | s. | d. | |
100 spars, at £198 ea. | 19,800 | 0 | 0 |
150 tons of phormium, at £40 p. ton | 6,000 | 0 | 0 |
£25,800 | 0 | 0 |
The cargoes of the two other ships carrying one hundred spars between them, and 300 tons each of the phormium, the accompt between the colony and the Mother-country would then stand at follows:-
Dr. | £ | s. | d. |
To outfit and all expences of colony | 19,606 | 5 | 0 |
8 months’ tonnage of transports Homeward bound | 3,600 | 0 | 0 |
£23,206 | 5 | 0 |
Cr. | £ | s. | d. |
By 750 tons of the phormium, at £40 p. ton] | 26,000 | 0 | 0 |
200 spars, at £198 p. spar | 39,600 | 0 | 0 |
Cr. £65,600 | 0 | 0 | |
Dr. £23,206 | 5 | 0 | |
Sum left to be distributed among the colonists | £42,393 | 15 | 0 |
Edward Nicolls, Lt.-Col., R.M.
Woolwich, 14th Novr., 1823.