Author: EMIGRATION.
Title: Emigration. North American and New South Wales. Copy of any Report or Reports made since the last presented to this House by the Emigration Agents of Canada, New Brunswick, and New South Wales to the Governors and Councils of those Colonies.
Description: First Edition; F'cap Folio; pp. iv, 158 (last blank), disbound a little brown to outside pages otherwise a very good copy. London; Colonial Office; 17 March 1843. The reports provides detailed information on "Bounty Immigrants" giving detail of their Trades or Callings, for both males and females, their average wages per annum with food and lodging, number of "Permissions to Import Immigrants on Bounty", mortality on board Immigrant Ships which arrived at Port Jackson, the number of persons occupying Stations beyond the Limits of Location broken up by Districts, the amount of land sold and the prices achieved, including a thirteen page despatch of Sir George Gipps on the "Bounty System" and his more positive view of the state of the colony. Ferguson. 3612.

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