As the shipped food supply did not reach them, Kuninao's party were in extreme poverty and pleaded to the Hokkaido Development Commission, thereby getting permission to relocate the reclamation site from Michitomi HIGASHIKUZE, Hokkaido Development Commissioner, who came to inspect Shippu.
船で運んだ食糧等も着かなかったため、一同は困窮を極め開拓使に嘆願したところ、同地を視察に訪れた開拓使長官東久世通禧より開拓地を移ることを許される。