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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 580, 22 February 1851, Page 3

[From the Government Gazette, Feb. 21.] Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 14th February, 1851. 1 Lieutenant-Governor has been -*• pleased to direct the publication of the following Reports on the Coal and Wood Fuel of the New Zealand Islands, forwarded to His Excellency by Captain J. Lort Stokes, R.N., of Her Majesty’s Steam Ship “Acheron.” By His Excellency’s command, Alfred Domett, Colonial Secretary. 11. AL Steam Ship “Acheron” 21st December, ISSO. Sir, I have the honor, in compliance with your Excellency’s request, to enclose herewith a Report on the Coal and Wood Fuel of these Islands, experimented upon in Her Majesty s Steam Ship under my 7 command. I regret that the result is not more satisfactory. However, the coal we procured was from surface seams, and probably a better quality lies beneath. I earnestly hope so, for on this success depends the question of Steam Navigation for New Zealand, and attainment of commercial greatness, which, without it, is beyond her reach. But independently of steam purposes, certainly the first consideration, your Excellency is ■weil aware that an ample supply of cheap fuel will be requisite for* that large community by which the vast and almost treeless plains of the Middle Island will soon be overspread. I have the honor to be, Sir Your most obedient humble servant, J. Lort Stokes, Captaiu. To His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Wellington.