 The company acted urgently to fit out the "Tory", advertise for a captain and surveyor and select Colonel William Wakefield as the expedition's commander.William Wakefield was authorised to spend £3000 on goods that could be used to barter for land.By 12 May 1839, when the "Tory" left England under the command of Captain Edward Chaffers, the company had already begun advertising and selling land in New Zealand, and by the end of July—months before the company had even learned the "Tory" had arrived in New Zealand—all available sections for its first settlement had been sold.