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them in force, and guaranteeing the assent of the Association at Home to their provisions. But he required as a condition that ‘The Land Purchasers’ Society’ should agree to the course he proposed. The resolutions were moved by Mr. FitzGerald and carried. The terms upon which runs were to he held for pastoral purposes were fixed to the satisfaction of the Australian squatters, who had recently arrived; capital and stock continued to flow in, and the ruin which was inevitable had the agent rigidly adhered to his instructions, was averted. Mr. Deans, of Riccarton, a very shrewd and far-seeing man, used frequently to remark that Mr. Godley had saved the colony.”
