An Epitome of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs and Land Purchases in the North Island of New Zealand
General Report. New Plymouth, 30th November, 1843
Sir,—
I have little more to state than that the settlers have been busily employed on their farms and gardens, and that the prospects of the season remain very fair, although the proportion of rainy and squally weather has been greater than is usual in this month. Several mechanics, unable to obtain employment at their own trade, have become cultivators of land, and there is now scarcely any person in the settlement who is not in some way employed upon land.