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New Zealand Company, Original Correspondence. General, Folio 501-900 : Correspondence.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Migration to new worlds.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Description: Lists and letters recording the price of cabin accommodation on board various vessels, specifically the goods and furniture sent on board the 'Brougham' to furnish cabins of certain passengers. Others relate to the business affairs of the New Zealand Company, land sales, orders, compensation claims of landowners and share transfers. A printed copy of the "Twentieth Report of the Court of Directors of The New Zealand Company" is also included here, where aspects of company expenditure, colonial government, contact with indigenous peoples and general colony conditions are noted. Other letters also refer to the disproportionate amount of wages earnt by emigrants compared with the cost of living in the Australasian colonies. There are many documents here detailing the surveying services and accounts of Frederick Alonzo Carrington (surveyor of New Plymouth) and his affiliation with the New Zealand Company. There are also copies of applications made for free passage, printed lists of cabin diets and plans of ship accommodation on board the 'Hope', 'Bella Marin', 'Therese', 'Slains Castle', 'Raymond', 'Louise Campbell', 'Mary Catherine' and the 'Madras'. A copy of the annual "Report of the Committee of the General Ship-Owners' Society for the Year 1845-1846" is also included. Copies of The London Gazette here present lists of private banks.
- Notes:
- The New Zealand Company was a chartered company formed in 1839 and incorporated in 1841 with power to buy, sell, settle and cultivate land in New Zealand. It did not prove a satisfactory agency for colonising New Zealand and was induced to surrender its charters in 1850. It was finally dissolved in 1858.
- AMDigital Reference: CO 208/51.
- Description based on online resource (viewed on October 24, 2017).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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