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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10

5. (See page 6.)

5. (See page 6.)

"Lard Sharks."—Twenty years ago this was a term rife in Am and New Zealand. Land-Sharks were mostly found among the speculative Capitalists of Australia, and the Masters of the Australian page 80 Whalers and Traders. Some Chief visiting Sydney, or some Native going on board a coasting vessel and wanting a gun, a bag of sugar, blankets, spirits, or tobacco would "sell," to use a term, some block of Land to the Land-Shark—other Natives would sell the same block, or other blocks to the same or other buyers, and in this way, by 1840, rather more Land had been "purchased" in New Zealand than New Zealand had Land to furnish.