The Morning Chronicle 21 June 1824

A quantity of New Zealand Flax has also been imported, which the female convicts in the Factory were taught to dress in the New Zealand manner by two natives of that country, after which it is spun and manufactured by the female convicts into various descriptions of cloth. Should this manufacture be properly encouraged and conducted, it may not only prove a profitable way of employing the female convicts whose bad characters unfit them for family servants, but by encouraging the New Zealanders to raise a commodity which they can barter for useful European articles, may in the end allure them from acts of murder and cannibalism, to that of raising an article by which all their various wants may be supplied.