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(10.) The pupils on leaving school resort to various employments. Some have gone into offices, Others into professions, others have become theological students, several have become interpreters, four have prosecuted their studies at the University. Many have gone back to their people, and we have good authority for saying that in many instances they have exerted a beneficial influence. Not a few of the most promising have been removed by death. (11.) There can be no question as to the value of technical instruction, but it will be found eventually, we believe, that technical instruction will have to be given in technical schools. The question of grafting it upon the ordinary school course has now been before the public both in England and elsewhere for many years, with but few practical results. (1.2.) Te Aute College is provided with a workshop and a fair supply of ordinary carpenters' tools. J. B. Fielder, Esq., Trustee, Te Aute School Trust. J. Thornton.

EXHIBITS Nos. 28 (plan of Te Aute, showing original grants), 29 (original authentic survey plan), and 30 (locality plan). (See plans at end of paper.)

EXHIBIT No. 31. This deed made the fourteenth day v. November one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six between the Right Reverend Charles John Bishop of Wellington the Venerable Archdeacon Hadfield William MacLeod Bannatyne George Hunter and Robert Stokes all of Wellington Esquires trustees appointed by the General Synod of the branch of the United Church ol England and Ireland in New Zealand of the one part and Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of the other part Whereas by certain letters patent under the public seal of the Colony of New Zealand bearing date the tenth day oi June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven the land and hereditaments hereinafter described and intended to be hereby conveyed were with other hereditaments granted to the Bishop of New Zealand who by a certain deed dated the thirteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two conveyed the same to the parties hereto of the first part And whereas it has since been ascertained that at the time of granting the said land hereinafter described the Crown had not wholly extinguished the Native title thereto and it is expedient that the said land should be surrendered to Her Majesty and that in fulfilment of an agreement to that effect entered into between the Governor-in-Chief oi New Zealand and the Bishop of New Zealand aforesaid in October one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three another piece of land should be granted to the parties hereto in lieu thereof And whereas by letters patent of the seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven and by other letters patent of the day of one thousand eight hundred and sixty- certain pieces of land equal in value with the piece of land hereby intended to be surrendered have been granted to the said parties hereto of the first part: Now therefore this deed witnesseth that in consideration of the premises they the said parties hereto of the first part do hereby convey and assure and surrender to Her Majesty the Queen all estate right title and interest of them the said parties hereto of the first part of and in all that piece of land being part of the land granted by the letters patent of the said tenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven and marked therein as containing eight hundred and seventy (870) acres more or less situate in the district of Ahuriri bounded as follows commencing at Ta Ranga o Tiimakura thence to Ngapuua Mairirirangi thence to Te Korera thence to Te Pakihiuromutu crossing the Mangaotai and thence to Maramatetaha thence to Ruakaka thence to Te Ahitara o te Houkura where it turns and runs on the northern boundary of the land conveyed to the Queen by the Native owners thereof by deed bearing date the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven then following the said boundary until it meets the western boundary of the land granted to the Bishop of New Zealand on the seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven and thence in a straight line to the commencing point As the same is delineated on the plan in the margin hereof coloured pink Provided always that no covenants or title are to be herein implied other that the conveying parties have done no act to encumber the premises. In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto subscribed their names. C. J. Wellington Bishop of Wellington W. M. Ballantyne Octavius Hadfield G. W. Hunter Robt. Stokes. Signed by the said C. J. Wellington and W. M. Ballantyne in the presence of —Robert Lambert Clerk Willis Street. Signed by the said Octavius Hadfield in the presence of me —J. T. Edwards R.M. Otaki. Signed by the said George Hunter and Robt. Stokes in the presence of —Henry Mitchell Clerk Wellington.

EXHIBIT No. 32. DIOCESE OF WELLINGTON".—NATIVE SCHOOL TRUST 2. This deed made the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two between the Right Reverend George Augustus Bishop of New Zealand of the one part and the Right Reverend Charles John Bishop of Wellington the Venerable Octavius Hadfield Archdeacon of Kapiti William MacLeod Bannatyne George Hunter and Robert Stokes all of Wellington Esquires trustees appointed by the General Synod of the branch of the United Church of England and Ireland