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iiators, employed and Under the supervision of the Missionaries, Resident Magistrates, Surgeons,and other Gentlemen resident in the Colony. Communications were therefore addressed by the Rev. Mr. Kissling, the Chairman of the Board, to the undermentioned gentlemen ; and four lancets, a quantity of vaccine lymph, several printed papers, in English and Maori, explanatory of the objects of the House of Representatives, and the wishes of the Central Board, were enclosed for distribution in their districts ; and permission given to each gentleman, to draw the money placed opposite his name, for the remuneration of Native Vaccinators as per enclosure. This appropriation absorbed five hundred pounds ; and the remaining two hundred has been spent in purchasing lancets, and materials for preserving vaccine lymph ; and in the part payment of Mr. Andrews, Surgeon, who was appointed to vaccinate the Natives resorting to Auckland; ttf collect and transmit lymph throughout the Colony, and carry on the general correspondence of the Board, as the medical Secretary. The remainder of Mr. Andrews' salary of one hundred and fifty pounds for one year, and at the rate of one hundred a-year for five months ; and four pounds three shillings a month five months, for an Interpreter to the Secretary, have been defrayed out of an additional sum ot four hundied pounds voted by the Provincial Council of Auckland for tile Vaccination ot the Natives within that Province. Favorable accounts have been received from Various parts of the Colony, of the progress of Vaccination ; but the Board have not yet obtained reports from several gentlemen who have not drawn the money appropriated to them for the payment of Native Vaccinators. The Board have experienced two great impediments in vaccinating the Aborigines. Firstly,—The difficulty of keeping up a stock of good vaccine lymph, from the Natives neVer returning when vaccinated; and Secondly,—From the loss of power produced in the lymph by the delay which occurred fiom the irregular communication with distant districts in the Colony. In order to carry out the recommendation contained in the Report of the Committee pf the House of Representatives on Vaccination, the Central Board beg to suggest that an annual vote o five hundred pounds be granted for the vaccination of the Aborigines ; that one hundred ant thirty of this sum be appropriated to the payment of a medical Secretary to the oar , w ose u y should also be the vaccination of Natives resorting to Auckland ; the collection preservation, and transmission of lymph throughout the Colony ; that thirty pounds per annum be set apart to purchase instruments and materials for preserving lymph, and that the remaining three hundre and fifty be transmitted to the Superintendents of the different Provinces, in the following proportions, for the payment of European or Native itinerant Vaccinators within respective^rovinces, viz. :— rn To Auckland .. .. <• " " Wellington .. .• •• " ok " New Plymouth . • «. " "Nelson .. .. .. •• •• " anterbury .. • • • • ' • ln » O'ago .. .. •• •• ™ " Stewart's Island .< " Chatham Islands ~ «« •« " £350 (Signed) Gr« A. Kissling,Chairman'j

Province. j Names. Amount. Totals. Province of Auckland — Hokianga Rev. Mr. Hobbs £ | 1 ' Kaitaia Rev. Mr. Matthews Bay of Islands- Archdeacon H. Williams 10 Ditto Dr. Montgomery ° Kaipara Mr. Buller 10 Whartgarei Ditto ■' Waikato ®- ev - Mr. Maunsell lu