ABSTRACT
The efficiency and energy of Pine reduced to something like order the confused situation that had arisen; he recommended the abandonment of both the obnoxious conditions, and yet reported that there would be only 313 actual grantees -127 of these not Boers-and the total amount of the grants would be only about 1,340,000 acres. Most of the 'Land Commission farms' were in the Klip River and Umvoti Divisions near the border: most of the 'registration farms'- those claimed under the arrangement of 1843-were in the divisions of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. Pine did not think that the farms would materially interfere with either the location of the natives or the settlement of immigrants. I The fact of the matter was that most of the birds had flown despite all the attempts of Sir Harry and his predecessors to cage them.
