(Government Resident's) Half-yearly Report on Northern Territory to December 31st, 1886
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1887.
Folio, 21 pages.
Drop-title; small holes in the left-hand margin where sewn when bound (now disbound); an excellent copy.
South Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 53 of 1887; only 670 copies printed. An overview of the affairs of the Territory (9 pages) by the Government Resident J. Langdon Parsons - with much interesting material on mining, resulting from Tenison Woods' recent report - plus appendices on prisons, health and aboriginal affairs. The latter includes a full-page report on the Catholic Mission to the aborigines of the Northern Territory at Rapid Creek near Palmerston, with details of the recent establishment of the Daly River mission station.
Item #57342
Price (AUD):
$300.00