(COPY FROM THE “HOCKEN” COLLECTION, DUNEDIN.)

As several of our brethren and myself are about to depart for Kidee Kidee, all the stores and other things that are in the School Room will be taken away (and agreeable to my instructions from Mr. Marsden), I have to request that you will prepare the School-room as soon as possible for the reception of children, and commence teaching

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immediately; and at the same time make a regular monthly demand on the Society's store (according to ration), for the maintenance of such children, as shall from time to time be admitted, and of such other necessaries, as may be wanted for the effectual carrying on of the same; also to make a regular monthly return of the expenditure, and all other things relative to the School.