Patrick Matthew

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CONTENTS

Reasons for Emigrating.
Reasons for Preferring New Zealand to Every Other Emigration Field, and for Forming a Scots New Zealand Company.
Fundamental Rules Respecting Shares.
Further Regulations Respecting the Management of the Company’s Affairs.
Importance of Colonization to the British People.
Land Property Right.
Utility of Emigration and Colonies.
Especial Reasons for Colonizing New Zealand.
To the British Fair.
Slavery.
Postscript.

The object of the Scots New Zealand Land Company, is to lay out the Capital of the Shareholders to the greatest advantage, in transporting them, their families, and friends, to New Zealand, and in purchasing Land and other Property, and to obtain Protection and other Social Advantages.

At a Meeting of intending Shareholders, held at Perth, on the 24th of August 1839, Patrick Matthew in the Chair, the following Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company, moved by William Gorrie, and seconded by William Taylor, was unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be published, the principal portion of the same having previously been examined and approved of by intending Shareholders in various parts of Scotland.