 It did not have enough land to satisfy the arriving settlers and it could no longer legally sell the land it claimed it owned.Under instructions from the Colonial office, Hobson was to set up a system in which much of the revenue raised from the sale of land to settlers would be used to cover the costs of administration and development, but a portion of the funds would also be used to send emigrants to New Zealand.That plan, says historian Patricia Burns, was further proof of the "pervasive influence of the Wakefield theory".