with a flat of about 350 acres of level land nearly exhausted by constant cultivation little attention being paid to rotation of crops. The Pa is near the Kaweranga river which is sufficiently deep at high water for vesels of 15 or 18 tons. The country on the East side of the Thames between Mr. Lanfears and Manaia is excessively poor and hilly with a small flat here and there of a few acres near the entrance of creeks on these little spots the Natives cultivate and form their villages but level land is so limited that it does not provide sufficient food for the comparatively few natives residing there who are obliged to cultivate their wheat and potatoes on the rugged hill sides which appear from the sea side so steep and inaccessible that none but expert climbers like the Maories could make any use of them