Apart from one circular visit occupying two months, Captain Hobson himself kept sedulously away from the southern settlements, and stayed in the north, then a longer journey away from Wellington than Australia is now.

Under the rather high-sounding title of Chief Protector of the Aborigines, Mr.Clarke, a missionary, was appointed to be the Governor's adviser on native matters; yet Mr.Clarke, the settlers complained, was a larger land claimant than any of themselves.

It is not to be wondered at if a feeling grew up among the New Zealand settlers directed against both officials and missionaries, which at times intensified to great bitterness, and which took many years to die down.

Even now its faint relics may be observed in a vague feeling of dislike and contempt for the Colonial Office.
The New Zealand Company, however, cannot be acquitted of blame in more respects than one.

The foundation of the Wakefield theory rested on a secure supply of useful land.