"'I am glad to know from you that your appointment to the _Rattlesnake_ is so satisfactory to you, and can assure you that it was highly pleasing to me to give the service the advantage of having you again in active employment.' (_Private letter in possession of Hobson's family_). "While Hobson was on the East Indies station Auckland was himself appointed Governor-General of India. Troubles with Burma for months, and even for years, made it seem that an expedition would be necessary, and both before and after the Australian cruise, Hobson had been instructed to be ready for this, as he would be senior naval officer on the station. Finally, Hobson's time came to return to England, and the instructions were handed over to another captain. In his letters to his wife at this period, which I have copied, but cannot find just now, Hobson frequently refers in terms of gratitude to Auckland's kindly interest. At one time he expected a naval appointment at Bombay worth £2000 a year, which he compared with a 'factorship' in New Zealand or a governorship of Port Philip, which he surveyed. His conclusion was rather in favour of the latter. "In my chapter on Hobson's character, I refer to his frequent acknowledgments of the kindly interest of three men, Sir Lawrence Halsted, Lord Auckland and the Duke of Clarence. He has commemorated them and others in the nomenclature of Australia and New Zealand, wherever he had a chance. 'Believe me,' he writes to his wife in 1836, regarding the kindly interest of Lord Auckland, 'many a valuable officer pines in obscurity merely because he has no friends to bring his merits into notice.' The friendship of Lord Auckland was well recognised, for an acquaintance once asked him to exert his influence on behalf of his own son-in-law. 'It would gratify me beyond measure,' he writes to Mrs. Hobson in reply 'to be the means of pushing his son-in-law forward, but to write to Lord Auckland, as ---- wishes me to do, to ask his Lordship's interest on behalf of another, merely because he befriended me, is so absurd a thing that I cannot help wondering how any rational man could propose it.' "I hope that this may be sufficient to fix the responsibility for the name of Auckland. There can be no historical doubt as to its origin, and the reason for it." Appendix II _Population of the City of Auckland_ YEAR. POPULATION. 1840 -- 1841 1,500 (estimated) 1842 2,895 1843 2,522 1844 2,754 1858 6,283 1861 7,989 1864 12,423 1867 11,153 1871 12,937 1874 12,775 1878 13,758 1881 16,664 1886 33,161 1891 28,613 1896 31,424 1901 34,213 1906 37,736 1911 40,536 1916 64,951 1921 83,467 The population of the City and suburbs in 1921 was 158,000. Appendix III _Table Showing Imports and Exports at the Port of Auckland: 1853-1920_