campbell's handling of land issues resulted in governor of new zealand george grey receiving a large number of complaints about campbell, as well as voluminous correspondence from him about colonists and run-holders. campbell did not acknowledge james fitzgerald as superintendent and, despite repeated requests, refused to provide fitzgerald a return of revenue from land leases. gerald hensley points out that campbell was ""maintaining with a splendid inconsistency that he had not received the governor's dispatch instructing him to do so, even while quoting parts of it in his long and argumentative letters."" during late 1853 there was a heated exchange of letters between the two men, into which governor grey was copied.