https://books.google.com/books?id=N0RRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA10 page 10 I have the honor to report, for the information of the Government, the result of my visit to Maketu and the Lake District, and the preliminary arrangements made for introducing the new system of Government for the Natives. […] https://books.google.com/books?id=N0RRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA12 page 12 They further required that a certain number of the old Chiefs should be liberally pensioned by the Government, and placed upon a footing of equality with European gentlemen of independent means, in consideration of their resigning their "mana" as Chiefs in favor of the new system; […]