Arthur's words struck the hearts of all New Zealanders like a heavy hammer.
Indeed! As kind as His Royal Highness Arthur may be, he is eventually the monarch of the Australian People. To Arthur, New Zealand is merely a territory under temporary administration for twenty years and he only has administrative power during these years, even being controlled by the officials of the Colonial Government.
Under such circumstances, nobody is foolish enough to exhaust all their resources in developing a land that may not belong to them.
On considering this, New Zealanders were filled with disappointment, but this was soon replaced by a dreadful thought: What if New Zealand were indeed a territory under His Royal Highness Arthur? What if they were subjects of His Royal Highness Arthur?
If New Zealand, like Australia, was a territory under Arthur, wouldn't His Royal Highness be able to develop New Zealand the same way he did Australia, increasing the income of all New Zealanders?
