 Each would be 150 acres (60 hectares) of rural land, 50 acres (20 hectares) of accommodation land and one "town acre" (4000 square metres), with half the funds raised by land sales being spent on emigration and about £50,000 ending up as company profits.The land would be sold at £301 per allotment or 30 shillings an acre, one pound an acre more than land at Wellington, with a lottery to determine the ownership of specific allotments.Three ships, the "Arrow", "Whitby", and "Will Watch", sailed that month for New Zealand with surveyors and labourers to prepare plots for the first settlers (scheduled to follow five months later).